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Dynamics of Hohokam obsidian circulation in the North American Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

James M. Bayman  and
M. Steven Shackley
James M. Bayman
Affiliation:
University of Hawai'i, Honolulu HI 96822, USA. jbayman@hawaii.edu
M. Steven Shackley
Affiliation:
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-3712, USA. shackley@sscl.berkeley.edu
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Abstract

Geochemical analyses of obsidian offer unexpected insights on the size and organization of the Hohokam regional system in the North American Southwest. Networks of obsidian circulation enlarged greatly during the Classic period as community centres with monumental architecture acquired non-local obsidian from a vast territory. This pattern confirms that prior models drastically underestimated the geographic scale of the Classic period regional system.

Keywords

archaeologyobsidianexchangeNorth AmericaHohokam
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 282 , December 1999 , pp. 836 - 845
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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