Obsidian geology and archaeology in the North American southwest

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Shackley, M. Steven (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Tucson Univ. of Arizona Press 2005
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Zusammenfassung:"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studies in a twenty-first-century southwestern archaeology -- Glossary -- Appendix : elemental concentrations for unpublished sources of archaeological obsidian in the southwest and instrument conditions for analysis.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 246 S.
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0816523967
0-8165-2396-7