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chert source use through time and space. The outcome of the artifact analyses
demonstrates that this type of research produces some very detailed data with regard
to artifact provenance and makes this line of research in the northern Lesser
Antilles a very exciting one, which definitely needs continuation.
Acknowledgments
The work discussed in this chapter was part of a broader research by the first
author at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. This
research was financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
(NWO; research grant number 250-53-023). The authors visited the northeastern
Antilles in 1998. Petrographic and geochemical analyses were performed at the
Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht.
In the course of this work many people were helpful to us. We would like to
thank the following people at the faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht:
Helen de Waard, who performed the ICPAES analyses and helped us out during the
sample preparation procedure; Otto Stiekema and Jan Drenth, who prepared many
of the thin sections; and Professor Bernard de Jong and Dr. Cees Woensdrecht,
who were helpful in many ways.
We would like to acknowledge the following people for allowing us to analyze
artifact samples from archaeological sites: Luis Chanlatte Baik and Yvonne Narganes
Storde of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (Sorcé); Corinne Hofman
and Menno Hoogland, Leiden University (Spring Bay 3 and Kelbey’s Ridge 2);
Aad Versteeg (Golden Rock); Jeffery Walker of the USDA Forest Service (Sugar
Factory Pier); David Watters, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
(Trants); and André Delpuech, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (Morel and Anse à la
Gourde).
Furthermore, special thanks go to Jeffrey B. Walker, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
(both Puerto Rico), and Reginald Murphy (Antigua) for helping us out during our
field trip. Finally, we would like to acknowledge Annelou van Gijn and Corinne
Hofman for their help during different parts of the research.
Notes
1. Out of five known localities on St. Kitts only two were sampled.
2. In this chapter we use the word “assign” for placing an unknown case (i.e., artifact)
in a predefined group (a source), and the word “classify” for grouping a number
of cases based on predefined criteria. Confusingly, in predictive Discriminant Analysis
the term classify is often used for assigning unknown cases to known groups (e.g.,
Duarte Silva and Stam 1995).
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