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Obsidian : Geology and Archaeology in the North American Southwest /
"Obsidian was long valued by ancient peoples as a raw material for producing stone tools, and archaeologists have increasingly come to view obsidian studies as a crucial aid in understanding the past. Steven Shackley now shows how the geochemical and contextual analyses of archaeological obsidi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.