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Factors Influencing Obsidian Procurement and Use in the Snake River Plain, Idaho, and its Environs (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Pascali. John Dudgeon. Kateea Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many tool-quality obsidian sources can be found across the Snake River Plain (SRP) in southern Idaho and adjacent geologic areas. This material was widely used in prehistory, with some artifacts discovered as far away as the Ohio River Valley. In order to better understand the selection and use of regional obsidian sources, we undertook experiments to...