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

Author/creator Shackley, M. Steven
Format Book
Publication InfoTucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxvi, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
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.

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studies in a twenty-first-century Southwestern archaeology -- Glossary -- Appendix : elemental concentrations for unpublished sources of archaeological obsidian in the Southwest and instrument conditions for analysis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-242) and index.
LCCN 2005005831
ISBN0816523967 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780816523962