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Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua...

Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua...

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Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

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Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

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New York: Springer US

Journal title

Journal of archaeological method and theory, 2022-09, Vol.29 (3), p.962-988

Language

English

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New York: Springer US

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Contents

Widely held assumptions about static societies during the early-middle Holocene (c. 10,000–3300 BP) in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea are challenged by a hypothetical reconstruction of social negotiations that we propose were embedded within the manufacture of large obsidian stemmed tools that circulated as cultural valuables. Made by sk...

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Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2705907751

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2705907751

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ISSN

1072-5369

E-ISSN

1573-7764

DOI

10.1007/s10816-021-09545-3

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