Obsidian craft production in ancient central Mexico : archaeological research at Xochicalco /

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Author / Creator:Hirth, Kenn.
Imprint:Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2006.
Description:xviii, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6019729
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Other authors / contributors:Andrews, Bradford.
ISBN:0874808472 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780874808476
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-371) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : obsidian craft production at Xochicalco / Kenneth G. Hirth
  • 2. Households and plazas : the contexts of obsidian craft production at Xochicalco / Kenneth G. Hirth and Ronald Webb
  • 3. A technological analysis of Xochicalco obsidian prismatic blade production / Kenneth G. Hirth, Bradford Andrews and J. Jeffrey Flenniken
  • 4. More interesting than you'd think : the percussion, ground stone, and lapidary industries in Xochicalco obsidian workshops / Kenneth G. Hirth and J. Jeffrey Flenniken
  • 5. Supply-side economics : an analysis of obsidian procurement and the organization of workshop provisioning / Kenneth G. Hirth, Gregory Bondar, Michael Glascock, A. J. Vonarx and Thierry Daubenspeck
  • 6. Flaked stone craft production in domestic contexts / Kenneth G. Hirth
  • 7. Market forces or state control : the organization of obsidian craft production in a civic-ceremonial context / Kenneth G. Hirth
  • 8. Estimating production output in domestic craft workshops / Kenneth G. Hirth and Bradford Andrews
  • 9. Production for use or exchange : obsidian consumption at the workshop, household, and regional levels / Kenneth G. Hirth and Ronald Castanzo
  • 10. Patterns of stone tool consumption in Xochicalco's civic-ceremonial core / Bradford Andrews and Kenneth G. Hirth
  • 11. Craft specialization and craftsman skill / Kenneth G. Hirth and Bradford Andrews
  • 12. Modeling domestic craft production at Xochicalco / Kenneth G. Hirth
  • 13. Modeling a prehistoric economy : mesoamerican obsidian systems and craft production at Xochicalco / Kenneth G. Hirth
  • App. A. The analytical categories for Xochicalco's lithic terminology / Kenneth G. Hirth and J. Jeffrey Flenniken
  • App. B. The results of experimental studies in obsidian prismatic blade production / Kenneth G. Hirth and J. Jeffrey Flenniken
  • App. C. An experimental study of use-wear striation on obsidian prismatic blades / Kenneth G. Hirth and Ronald Castanzo
  • App. D. A trampling experiment : separating use from abuse of obsidian prismatic blades / Kenneth G. Hirth and Ronald Castanzo.