Kutau/Bao Obsidian – Extending its Eastern Distribution into the Fijian Northeast

Callan Ross-Sheppard · Christophe Sand · Jone Balenaivalu · David V. Burley

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This paper reports on the discovery and geochemical sourcing of an obsidian flake from a Lapita site on Vorovoro Island off the northeast coast of Vanua Levu, Fiji. The flake is sourced using pXRF to the Kutau/Bao source located on the Willaumez Peninsula, West New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago.

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