Prehistoric Quarries and Terranes : The Modena and Tempiute Obsidian Sources /

"This project is Shott's report on the extensive analysis of a large sample of flake debris and products from the Modena and Tempiute obsidian quarries in eastern Nevada. Archaeologists dealing with the mass of quarry material will find useful information about analyses of reduction, flake...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shott, Michael J. (Michael Joseph) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric.
Obsidian.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Antiquities.
Obsidienne > Nevada.
Carrieres prehistoriques > Nevada.
Obsidian > Nevada.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Nevada.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Nevada.
Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric > Nevada.
Nevada.
Nevada > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : approaches to quarry studies
  • Previous research in Lincoln County
  • Obsidian and the Modena and Tempiute quarries
  • Fieldwork and data collection
  • The reduction process and analysis of flake debris
  • Bifaces
  • Testing the field-processing model in biface-preform data
  • Estimating scale of quarry production
  • Obsidian hydration dating
  • Modena and Tempiute terranes : inferring scale and pattern of prehistoric land use.

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