• DOI:10.1007/BF02039899
Corpus ID: 97455573

Sourcing archaeological obsidian by an abbreviated NAA procedure

@article{Glascock1994SourcingAO,
  title={Sourcing archaeological obsidian by an abbreviated NAA procedure},
  author={M. Glascock and H. Neff and K. Stryker and T. Johnson},
  journal={Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry},
  year={1994},
  volume={180},
  pages={29-35}
}

M. Glascock, H. Neff, +1 author T. Johnson

Published 1994

Geology

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

An abbreviated NAA procedure has been developed to fingerprint obsidian artifacts in the Mesoamerican region. Despite the large number of available sources, an NAA procedure, which relies on producing short-lived isotopes, has been applied with a success rate greater than 90 percent. The abbreviated NAA procedure is rapid and cost competitive with the XRF technique more often applied in obsidian sourcing. Results from the analysis of over 1,200 obsidian artifacts from throughout Mesoamerica are… CONTINUE READING

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