Determining the Biographies of the Indonesian Standing Stones at Harvest Preserve, Iowa City, Iowa

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

There are numerous megaliths on the islands of Indonesia, including the island of Flores where their constructions date to 2500-1000 BCE. Some of the stones that comprise these megaliths have been trafficked to other countries in recent years. In the early 2000s an Iowa City collector purchased a set of 50 of these standing stones from a location or locations in Indonesia and placed them in two stone arrangements, known as Sacred Stone Circle and Relationships, at the Harvest Preserve in Iowa City, Iowa. These stones have never been the subject of archaeological or geological investigations, and their precise origins and biographies remain unclear. This project uses portable X-ray florescence to establish the geochemical composition and possible provenance of these megalithic stones, and specifically attempts to verify whether these stones originated from outcrops in Flores.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 33003