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IAOS International Association for Obsidian Studies Bulletin IAOS International Association for Obsidian Studies Bulletin Number 44 Winter 2011 CONTENTS International Association for Obsidian Studies News and Information ………………………… 1 President Tristan Carter Notes from the President ……………….………. 2 Past-President Anastasia Steffen Obituary: Roger C. Green………………………. 4 Secretary-Treasurer S. Colby Phillips IAOS Elections: Candidate Statements…..….…. 6 Bulletin Editor Carolyn Dillian News and Notes……………………………….... 8 Webmaster Craig Skinner Iridescent Obsidian from Tenerife………...……..9 Instructions for Authors …..…………………… 12 Web Site: http://www.peak.org/obsidian About the IAOS………………………………… 13 Membership Application ……………………….. 14 NEWS AND INFORMATION CONSIDER PUBLISHING IN THE IAOS Annual Meeting IAOS BULLETIN The annual meeting of the IAOS will be The Bulletin is a twice-yearly publication that held at the 2011 Society for American reaches a wide audience in the obsidian community. Archaeology meetings in Sacramento, Please review your research notes and consider California. The IAOS meeting will be submitting an article, research update, news, or lab Friday April 1 at 3.30-5pm. Please see your report for publication in the IAOS Bulletin. Articles SAA program for meeting location. and inquiries can be sent to [email protected] Thank you for your help and support! IAOS Elections We will hold electronic elections for President-Elect and Secretary-Treasurer in preparation for the 2011 IAOS Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA. Candidate statements can be found on pages 6-7 of this IAOS Bulletin. Please email your vote to the current IAOS President, Tristan Carter at [email protected] with “IAOS elections” in the subject line. NOTES FROM THE PRESIDENT Greetings once again, this time from the European Association of Archaeology, snowy tail-end of term, as we approach the together with the 2012 bi-annual conference holiday season and that small window of post- of the International Symposium of teaching research time before unadulterated Archaeometry to be held in Liège, Belgium. consumerism kicks in. For the IAOS we are Next year we also hope to have some major currently looking ahead to a range of 2011 updates on the IAOS website, specifically with activities, not least our yearly gathering at the regard to the bibliographic database that annual meetings of the Society for American contains hundreds of references to studies Archaeology, this time around in Sacramento, worldwide on obsidian geo-chemistry, geo- CA during March 30th – April 3rd. We are chronology and sourcing. Craig Skinner has hoping to gather on Friday 1st April at 3.30- already begun this process, something that I 5pm for the actual IAOS meeting which we hope to help with over the next few months hope as many of you as possible will be able with the aid of two of my McMaster to attend; location to be announced in due University Research Assistants. In the course. This gathering offers us a chance to meantime we would greatly appreciate it if revisit the activities of the Society and plan for any of our members alert us to their recent its productive future, not least through the publications, either as a list of bibliographic announcement of the next president (for 2012- references and / or a PDF of the papers 14) and our new treasurer/secretary. These themselves; these should be sent either to important posts have four excellent candidates Craig (at [email protected]), or me. standing for election, namely Dr. Jeff On a personal note, I enjoyed a wonderful Ferguson and Dr. Ellery Frahm for president, summer out in the field collecting obsidian plus Kyle Freund and Adam Nazaroff for source samples in Turkey and Greece with a treasurer/secretary; you can read their personal small group made up of two of my statements here in the Bulletin and then cast undergrads, Kyle Freund (a winner of the your votes via email to me, at: IAOS student poster competition at last year’s [email protected] SAA’s), Daniel Contreras from Stanford, an On Thursday March 31st we also have a expert in geo-archaeology and Peruvian symposium that will hopefully be of interest to obsidian, plus local collaborators from Van you all, titled The Cutting Edge: The State of University in eastern Anatolia. It was in the Play in World Obsidian Studies; this is an latter region that we began our travails, evening session (6-9pm) and we will let you including a nine hour romp around the rim of all know the location as soon as the SAA has the magnificent caldera of Nemrut Dağ; informed me. This panel is chaired by myself wonderful views (see image), but lousy and is sponsored by both the IAOS and the quality obsidian... We then travelled cross- Society for Archaeological Sciences; see the country to Cappadocia, where the chances of SAA preliminary program for details... should being shot by local bandits diminished, access be something for everyone! In due course we to local wine increased and we got to visit also hope to have a gathering of some kind in some of the prehistoric Eastern Europe in the next couple of years, potentially Mediterranean’s most important source-based to run another version of our SAA workshops at Kömürcü and Kayırlı on the symposium, albeit potentially with more of an Göllü Dağ massif, whose products were Old World spin. There are a variety of circulated through Anatolia, into Cyprus and meetings at which we could have a presence, down into the southern Levant. From there we including the annual meetings of the continued eastwards and into the waters of the IAOS Bulletin No. 44, Winter 2011 Pg. 2 Aegean, taking a James Bond-esque sea-taxi research time, alongside those hours spent to the remote island of Giali, then wrapping up with great aunts and screaming children... in the quarries of Melos, after which it was One final holiday treat, check out the all- just a matter of dropping some major cash on too-important commentary on the use and excess baggage fees to get the samples back to abuse of pXRF in the latest SAA the lab here in Hamilton. Archaeological Record by our own Steve The next stage of course is to analyze all Shackley... these samples on my shiny Thermo Quant’X EDXRF in the McMaster Archaeological XRF All the very best, Lab [MAX Lab] which is near-as-dammit operational, well once we get the green light Tristan Carter from those lovely people at Health Canada... [email protected] More on that in the next Bulletin where I am President IAOS hoping to be able to share some of the results Assistant Professor, Dept. Anthropology, of our early work. Until then I wish you all a McMaster University / Director MAX Lab wonderful holiday season and hope that you all get some quality down time, perhaps even The caldera rim at Nemrut Dağ, Lake Van, Turkey. IAOS members L-R: Tristan Carter, Kyle Freund, Daniel Contreras and Kelly Brown IAOS Bulletin No. 44, Winter 2011 Pg. 3 OBITUARY: Roger Curtis Green (1932-2009) Obsidian Studies Pioneer Roger C. Green in the field in 1964 Overall obsidian studies are now realizing the potential that they appeared to hold when some of us began in the business some 30 years ago (Green 1998:232). The realm of obsidian provenance and dating one “worked flake” and seven “unworked flakes” lost one of its founders, an IAOS Advisor, and one (1956:192). He returned to his Largo-Gallina of my friends late last year. Roger C. Green was research late in life during a School of American one of the first to recognize the utility of obsidian Research (SAR) summer fellowship in Santa Fe provenance research in both North America and where I analyzed some of these and other obsidian Oceania (Green 1962, 1964; Green et al. 1967). artifacts (Shackley 1999). This was quite typical of Roger was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and his long-term interest in obsidian provenance. his family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico Roger’s interest in obsidian provenance studies when he was 16 where he attended Albuquerque began in earnest when he embarked on his High School downtown. This move to New doctoral research in Oceania focusing on the Mexico sparked his interest in archaeology, and prehistoric sequence in the Auckland region during the summer between high school and (Green 1962, 1963; 1998). However, Roger noted becoming a freshman at the University of New that his original stimulus for using obsidian Mexico, he worked in a number of archaeological provenance to solve archaeological problems came sites under Frank Hibben in the Middle Rio from two UNM geology students he knew who Grande River Valley and the Largo-Gallina region used a refractive index on sites in northern New of northern New Mexico (Green 1956). Roger Mexico, the first obsidian provenance study in completed coursework in geology and linguistics North America (Boyer and Robinson 1956; Green as well as anthropology at UNM, and subsequently 1998; Shackley 2005). Perhaps best enumerated was accepted to the graduate program in in his own words from his 1998 summary of anthropology. He studied for a time under Edward obsidian studies: Sapir and thought that he would work in linguistics, an early interest that became a factor in When in 1958-59 I first seriously much of his archaeological research in Oceania. began to investigate the potential of While in the Master’s program at UNM he worked volcanic glass studies for archaeology in extensively in the Largo Gallina region of north New Zealand, and subsequently for the central New Mexico following his adviser rest of Oceania, method and theory in the Hibben’s earlier work (1938). His UNM advisors, field was minimal. In the field of sourcing including Hibben, recognizing his outstanding the initial stimulation was the New acumen in prehistory, suggested that he attend Mexican work of Boyer and Robinson Harvard University where he studied under (1956)…and my original attempts began Gordon Willey and Cora du Bois.
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