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DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...

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Between October 2002 and April 2003, Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conducted archaeological excavations at six prehistoric Prescott Culture sites around Willow and Watson Lakes, situated in the Granite Dells, a picturesque area of exposed granite bedrock located approximately 6.5 to 8 km (4 to 5 miles) north of the city of Prescott. The results of these excavations and the specialized studies of recovered artifacts and cultural samples are presented herein and, it is hoped, contribute to an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of several locations on a shirt in the Buffalo Bill Museum collection identified pigments present in the pigment used on the shirt and/or to cure the hide.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of an icon painting from Kevin Zwiezen yielded images that detail the distribution of elements across the artwork.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Five textiles were examined using handheld X-ray Fluorescence technology to identify the presence of toxins.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R. A. Varney.

Two sediment samples and four rocks recovered in a trench at CA-SHA-2435 (Keswick Boat Ramp Cabin), situated on an ancestral terrace and hill along the Sacramento River, were submitted for analysis. A major historic (1890s to early 1900s) copper mining and smelting operation was located in this vicinity. A prehistoric camp is overlain by a cabin foundation and possible ore roasting features.