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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  1. Crafting Houses for the Living and the Dead: Obsidian Production, Multicrafting, and Household Identities at a Classic Maya Center, Chinikihá, Mexico (2015)
  2. Evocative Stones: Variable Obsidian Source Use in Northern California (2015)
  3. Exploring Hominin Cognition via Palaeolithic Obsidian Provisioning, Transport, and Technology (2015)
  4. From Raw Material to Symbol of Social Value: Obsidian Movement in the Palaeolithic (2015)
  5. A Longue Durée Approach to Obsidian Consumption and Social Value in Prehistoric Sicily (Italy) (2015)
  6. More than a pretty face? Exploring the allure of obsidian valuables from Papua New Guinea (2015)
  7. More than just a shiny stone? The sources and significance of obsidian found in early state contexts in the Near East (2015)
  8. Morphometric analysis of Stemmed Obsidian Tools from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) (2015)
  9. Negotiating social identity through practices with stone (2015)
  10. Not Always Shiny and Pretty: The Darker Side of Obsidian in Symbolizing Power, Ethnicity and Inequality in Contemporary Ethiopia (2015)
  11. 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)
  12. Sourcing Rapa Nui mata‘a from the collections of Bishop Museum using non-destructive pXRF (2015)
  13. The vast and secret museum of Chiriqui: Stripping the sharpness and beauty from obsidian (2015)
  14. Weaving people and places: A long-term term perspective on obsidian circulation and social value in NW Argentina (2015)