Obsidian : geology and archaeology in the North American southwest /
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| Author / Creator: | Shackley, M. Steven. |
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| Imprint: | Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xvi, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5747635 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Geology, methods, and the sources of archaeological obsidian
- 1. "Little black rocks in the desert" : an introduction
- 2. Obsidian petrology and geologic history
- 3. Obsidian sources : geology, geography, and archaeology
- 4. Beyond a "fishing expedition" : laboratory and field strategies for the discovery and analysis of archaeological obsidian in the southwest
- Pt. II. Archaeology, history, and application
- 5. Obsidian in ethnohistory and the public imagination
- 6. Range and procurement in the preceramic southwest
- 7. Migration, ethnicity, and external relationships in the classic period Tonto basin
- 8. Gender and social identity during the Hohokam Sacaton phase
- 9. Obsidian studies in a twenty-first-century southwestern archaeology
- App. Elemental concentrations for unpublished sources of archaeological obsidian in the southwest and instrument conditions for analysis.