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Crossing the straits : prehistoric obsidian source exploitation in the North Pacific Rim
- Title
- Crossing the straits : prehistoric obsidian source exploitation in the North Pacific Rim / edited by Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Michael D. Glascock.
- Publication
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2010.
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- Description
- x, 227 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.
- Summary
- "The original idea for developing this book as Proceedings from the Symposium on Obsidian Source Studies in Northeast Asia, held at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (2005), was conceived in the summer of 2004"--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- BAR international series ; 2152
- Uniform Title
- BAR international series ; 2152.
- Subject
- Obsidian > East Asia > Congresses
- Obsidian > North America > Congresses
- Obsidian > Mexico > Congresses
- Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric > East Asia > Congresses
- Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric > North America > Congresses
- Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric > Mexico > Congresses
- Antiquities
- Obsidian
- Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric
- Obsidian
- Verwendung
- East Asia > Antiquities > Congresses
- North America > Antiquities > Congresses
- Mexico > Antiquities > Congresses
- East Asia
- Mexico
- North America
- Pazifischer Raum <Nord>
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Proceedings of a symposium held in 2005 during the 70th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Obsidian Sourcing in the North Pacific Rim Region and Beyond It / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin and Michael D. Glascock -- A Review of Archaeological Obsidian Studies on Hokkaido Island (Japan) / Masami Izuho and Wataru Hirose -- Prehistoric Procurement of Obsidian from Sources on Honshu Island (Japan) / Takashi Tsutsumi -- Obsidian Trade Between Sources on Northwestern Kyushu Island and the Ryukyu Archipelago (Japan) During the Jomon Period / Hiroki Obata, Isao Morimoto, and Susumu Kakubuchi -- Provenance Study of Obsidian Artefacts Excavated from Palaeolithic Sites on the Korean Peninsula / Nam-Chul Cho, Jong-Chan Kim, and Hyung-Tae Kang -- Obsidian Provenance Studies on Kamchatka Peninsula (Far Eastern Russia): 2003-9 Results / Andrei V. Grebennikov et al. -- Bridging the Gap Between Two Obsidian Source Areas in Northeast Asia: LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Obsidian Artefacts from the Kurile Islands of the Russian Far East / S. Colby Phillips -- Crossing Mountains, Rivers, and Straits: a Review of the Current Evidence for Prehistoric Obsidian Exchange in Northeast Asia / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin -- Long-Distance Exchange of Western North American Obsidian / Carolyn D. Dillian -- Trace Element Characterisation of Archaeologically Significant Volcanic Glasses from the Southern Great Basin of North America / Richard E. Hughes -- Procurement and Consumption of Obsidian in the Early Formative Mixteca Alta: a View from the Nochixtlán Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico / Jeffrey P. Blomster and Michael D. Glascock -- Geochemical Characterisation of Obsidian in Western Mexico: the Sources in Jalisco, Nayarit, and Zacatecas / Michael D. Glascock et al. -- Thoughts and Inference on Prehistoric Obsidian Source Exploitation in the Pacific Rim and Beyond / M. Steven Shackley.
- ISBN
- 9781407306940
- 1407306944
- LCCN
- 2010551936
- OCLC
- ocn671298152
- 671298152
- SCSB-1582602
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library