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Author:

Shackley, M. Steven.

Title:

Obsidian : geology and archaeology in the North American southwest / M. Steven Shackley.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvi, 246 p. ill., maps : 25 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities.
Obsidian--Southwest, New.
Obsidian implements--Southwest, New.
Indians of North America--Implements--Southwest, New.
Indians of North America--Commerce--Southwest, New.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Ethnic identity.
Intergroup relations--Southwest, New--History.
Archaeological geology--Southwest, New.
Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( p. [209]-242) and index.

Contents:

"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.

ISBN:

9780816523962
9780816523962 (alk. paper)
0816523967 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58432186

LCCN:

2005005831

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)