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Journal Article

Author
Ambrose, Wal
Title
J. Roger Bird (1927 - 2001) [Obituary]
In
Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin
Imprint
vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 3-4
Url
https://socarchsci.org/images/bulletin/SAS251.pdf
Description

Roger Bird died on 22 November 2001. Although Roger would not claim to be an archaeologist his contribution to the field was generous and significant, especially in untangling the skeins of obsidian distribution in the southwest Pacific. The possibilities of obsidian as an agent for revealing prehistoric distribution networks were shown to some extent with the work of Conrad Key in the 1960s but a quantum jump to almost archaeological revelation status could be accorded to the results that Roger Bird produced from 1974 until the late 1990s.

[Includes a portrait photograph]

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