COMPOSITION AND PROVENANCE OF GREENSTONE ARTIFACTS FROM MOUNDVILLE

Greenstone was commonly used at Moundville for petaloid celts, which comprise 96% of the greenstone artifacts in the collections. Artifact greenstones are fine-to medium-grained, massive to crudely foliated metabasites composed of actinolite, epidote, and albite. Mineralogy, chemistry, and metamorph...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Southeastern archaeology 2001-12, Vol.20 (2), p.99-117
Hauptverfasser:	Gall, Daniel G., Steponaitis, Vincas P.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Basalt Geology Lithology Material culture Outcrops Procurement Rock textures Rocks Sodium Stone
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