Exotic, Lustrous, and Colorful: Obsidian in Symbol, Society, and Ceremony
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
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Other Keywords
Obsidian •
obsidian sourcing •
Maya •
Stone Tools •
Lithics •
Exchange •
Obsidian Sources •
Cognition •
Obsidian Lithics •
Social Identity
Geographic Keywords
Oceania •
Central America •
South America •
Mesoamerica •
AFRICA •
Europe •
North America - California •
West Asia
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- Documents (14)
- Crafting Houses for the Living and the Dead: Obsidian Production, Multicrafting, and Household Identities at a Classic Maya Center, Chinikihá, Mexico (2015)
- Evocative Stones: Variable Obsidian Source Use in Northern California (2015)
- Exploring Hominin Cognition via Palaeolithic Obsidian Provisioning, Transport, and Technology (2015)
- From Raw Material to Symbol of Social Value: Obsidian Movement in the Palaeolithic (2015)
- A Longue Durée Approach to Obsidian Consumption and Social Value in Prehistoric Sicily (Italy) (2015)
- More than a pretty face? Exploring the allure of obsidian valuables from Papua New Guinea (2015)
- More than just a shiny stone? The sources and significance of obsidian found in early state contexts in the Near East (2015)
- Morphometric analysis of Stemmed Obsidian Tools from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) (2015)
- Negotiating social identity through practices with stone (2015)
- Not Always Shiny and Pretty: The Darker Side of Obsidian in Symbolizing Power, Ethnicity and Inequality in Contemporary Ethiopia (2015)
- Preliminary Interpretations of the Reduction Technology and Distribution of Obsidian Cores at Caracol, Belize: Learning to Reconsider Maya "Eccentrics" and Social Relations of Ritual Objects. (2015)
- Sourcing Rapa Nui mata‘a from the collections of Bishop Museum using non-destructive pXRF (2015)
- The vast and secret museum of Chiriqui: Stripping the sharpness and beauty from obsidian (2015)
- Weaving people and places: A long-term term perspective on obsidian circulation and social value in NW Argentina (2015)