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Obsidian : geology and archaeology in the North American Southwest /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shackley, M. Steven
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Antiquities.
Obsidian > Southwest, New.
Obsidian implements > Southwest, New.
Indians of North America > Implements > Southwest, New.
Indians of North America > Commerce > Southwest, New.
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Ethnic identity.
Intergroup relations > Southwest, New > History.
Archaeological geology > Southwest, New.
Southwest, New > Antiquities.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • "Little black rocks in the desert" : an introduction
  • Obsidian petrology and geologic history
  • Obsidian sources : geology, geography, and archaeology
  • Beyond a "fishing expedition" : laboratory and field strategies for the discovery and analysis of archaeological obsidian in the Southwest
  • Obsidian in ethnohistory and the public imagination
  • Range and procurement in the preceramic Southwest
  • Migration, ethnicity, and external relationships in the classic period Tonto Basin
  • Gender and social identity during the Hohokam Sacaton phase
  • Obsidian studies in a twenty-first-century Southwestern archaeology
  • Glossary
  • Appendix : elemental concentrations for unpublished sources of archaeological obsidian in the Southwest and instrument conditions for analysis.