Pathways to Prismatic Blades,9780917956997

Pathways to Prismatic Blades

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ISBN13: 9780917956997
ISBN10: 0917956990
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Cotsen Inst of Archaeology
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Summary

Explores the social and economic processes involved in the manufacture of obsidian prismatic blades, one of the sharpest cutting instruments ever produced in the prehistoric world. Focusing on ancient Mesoamerica, contributors examine the variation in the way the blades were manufactured and the causes behind their variation. 145. (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA 2002)

Table of Contents

Pathways to Prismatic Blades: Sources of Variation in Mesoamerican Lithic Technology
1(15)
Kenneth Hirth
Bradford Andrews
Variation at the Source: Obsidian Exploitation at Sierra de las Navajas, Mexico
15(12)
Alejandro Pastrana
Producer Versus Consumer: Prismatic Core-Blade Technology at Epiclassic/Early Postclassic Tula and Ucareo
27(10)
Dan M. Healan
Aztec Blade Production Strategies in the Eastern Basin of Mexico
37(10)
William J. Parry
Stone Tool Production at Teotihuacan: What More Can We Learn From Surface Collections?
47(14)
Bradford Andrews
Production and Distribution of Obsidian Artifacts in Western Jalisco
61(20)
Michael W. Spence
Phil C. Weigand
Maria de los Dolores Soto de Arechavaleta
Provisioning Constraints and the Production of Obsidian Prismatic Blades at Xochicalco, Mexico
81(10)
Kenneth Hirth
Lithic Technology, Assemblage Variation, and the Organization of Production and Use of Obsidian on the South Gulf Coast of Veracruz, Mexico
91(14)
Robert S. Santley
Thomas P. Barrett
Early Classic Obsidian Core-Blade Production: An Example from the Site of Dos Hombres, Belize
105(16)
Rissa M. Trachman
Core-Blade Technology in Mesoamerican Prehistory
121(10)
Kenneth Hirth
J. Jeffrey Flenniken
Bibliography 131(14)
List of Contributors 145

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