California Source References

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Anderson, Charles A. 1933 The Tuscan Formation of Northern California with a Discussion Concerning the Origin of Volcanic Breccias. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 23(7):215-276.

Anderson, Charles A. 1936. Volcanic History of the Clear Lake Area, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 47:629-664.

Anderson, Charles A. 1941. Volcanoes of the Medicine Lake Highlands, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 25:347-422.

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Bacon, Charles R., Wendell A. Duffield, and Kazuaki Nakamura. 1980. Distribution of Quaternary Rhyolite Domes of the Coso Range, California: Implications for Extent of the Geothermal Anomaly. Journal of Geophysical Research 85B:2,425-2,433.

Bacon, Charles R., Ray MacDonald, Robert L. Smith, and Philip A. Baedecker. 1981. Pleistocene High-Silica Rhyolites of the Coso Volcanic Field, Inyo County, California. Journal of Geophysical Research 86B:10,223-10,241.

Bailey, Roy A. 1989. Geologic Map of the Long Valley Caldera, Mono-Inyo Craters Volcanic Chain, and Vicinity, Eastern California. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous investigations Series Map I-1993, scale 1:62,500.

Bailey, Roy A., G. B. Dalrymple, and L. A. Lanphere. 1976. Volcanism, Structure, and Geochronology of the Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California. Journal of Geophysical Research 81(B5):725-744.

Basgall, Mark E. 1988. The Archaeology of CA-MNO-679: A Pre-archaic Site in Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California. In Early Human Occupation in Far Western North America: The Clovis-Archaic Interface, edited by J.A. Willig, C.M Aikens, and J.L. Fagan, pp. 103-119. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers Number 21.

Basgall, Mark E. 1989. Obsidian Acquisition and Use in Prehistoric Central Eastern California: A Preliminary Assessment. In Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies, edited by Richard E. Hughes, pp. 111-126. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 48, Berkeley, California.

Basgall, Mark E. 1993. Chronological Sequences in the Southern Coast Ranges, California. In There Grows a Green Tree: Papers in Honor of David A. Fredrickson, edited by G. White, P. Mikkelsen, W. R. Hildebrandt, and M. E. Basgall, pp. 167-195. Center for Archaeological Research at Davis Publication 11, Davis, California.

Basgall, M.E. and K.R. McGuire. 1988. The Archaeology of CA-INY-30: Prehistoric Culture Change in the Southern Owens Valley, California. Report on file with the California Department of Transportation, Sacramento.

Basgall, Mark E. 1989. Obsidian Acquisition and Use in Prehistoric Central Eastern California: A Preliminary Assessment. In Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies, edited by Richard E. Hughes, pp. 111-126. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 48, Berkeley, California.

Basgall, Mark E. and Mark A. Giambastiani. 1995. Prehistoric Use of a Marginal Environment: Continuity and Change in Occupation of the Volcanic Tablelands, Mono and Inyo Counties, California. Center for Archaeological Research at Davis Publication No. 12, Davis, California.

Basgall, Mark E. and William R. Hildebrandt. 1989. Prehistory of the Sacramento River Canyon, Shasta County, California: Excavation at CA-Sha-1176, Sha-1175, Sha-1169, Sha-476. Center for Archaeological Research at Davis Publication No. 9, University of California, Davis, California.

Bentor, Yaacov K. 1984. Combustion-Metamorphic Glasses. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 67:433-448.

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Bettinger, Robert L. 1980. Obsidian Hydration Dates for Owens Valley Settlement Categories. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 2(2):286-292.

Bettinger, Robert L. 1982. Aboriginal Exchange and Territoriality in Owens Valley, California. In Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange, edited by J. E. Ericson and T. K. Earle. Academic Press: New York, New York, pp. 103-127.

Bettinger, Robert L. 1983. Aboriginal Sociopolitical Organization in Owens Valley: Beyond the Family Band. In The Development of Political Organization in Native North America, edited by E. Tooker. Proceedings of the EAS, 1979, pp. 45-58.

Bettinger, Robert L. 1989a. The Archaeology of Pinyon House, Two Eagles, and Crater Middens: Three Residential Sites in Owens Valley, Eastern California. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 67, 355 pp.

Bettinger, Robert L. 1989b. Establishing An Hydration Rate for Fish Springs Obsidian. In Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies, edited by R.E Hughes, pp. 59-68. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 48, Berkeley, California.

Bettinger, Robert L., Michael G. Delacorte, and Robert L. Jackson. 1984. Visual Sourcing of Central Eastern California Obsidians. In Obsidian Studies in the Great Basin, edited by R.E. Hughes, pp. 63-78. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, California.

Bieling, David G. 1992. Perspectives on Behavior Gained from Lithic Analysis and Archaeological Investigations Near Bridgeport, Mono County, California. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

Bouey, Paul D. and Mark E. Basgall. 1984. Trans-Sierran Exchange in Prehistoric California: The Concept of Economic Articulation. In Obsidian Studies in the Great Basin, edited by Richard E. Hughes, pp. 135-172. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 45, Berkeley, California.

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Bowman, H. R., F. Asaro, and I. Perlman. 1973b. On the Uniformity of Composition in Obsidians and Evidence for Magmatic Mixing. Journal of Geology 81:312-327.

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Burke, Thomas D. 1972. Stone Technology in Northern California. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.

Burton, J. F. 1996a. An Archaeological Survey of a Navy F-18 Crash Site, Hunter Mountain, Death Valley National Park, California. Report on file with the National Park Service Western Archaeological and Conservation Center.

Burton, J. F. 1996b. Three Farewells to Manzanar: The Archaeology of Manzanar National Historic Site, California. Western Archaeological and Conservation Center Publications in Anthropology 67.

Burton, J. F. 1998. The Archaeology of Somewhere: Archaeological Testing Along U.S. Highway 395, Manzanar National Historic Site, California. Western Archaeological and Conservation Center Publications in Anthropology 72.

Burton, J.F. and M. Farrell. 1996. The Hunter Mountain Incident: The Effects of Fire on Archaeological Resources. Paper presented at the 25th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Kings Beach, California.

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Castro, Jonathan M. 1999. Textural and Structural Development of Obsidian Lavas. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

Connolly, Thomas J., Jane E. Benjamin, Brian L. O’Neill, and Dennis L. Jenkins. 1994. Archaeological Investigations at Two Sites on the Upper Rogue River (35JA189 and 35JA190), Southwest Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 48, Eugene, Oregon.

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Dillian, Carolyn D. 2002. More Than Toolstone: Differential Utilization of Glass Mountain Obsidian. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California.

Dillian, Carolyn D., Charles A. Bello, and M. Steven Shackley. 2007. Crossing the Delaware: Documenting Super Long-Distance Exchange in the Mid-Atlantic. Archaeology of Eastern North America 35:81-104.

Dominici, Debra A. 1984. Calibration of the Obsidian Butte Hydration Rate and Its Implications Regarding Late Prehistoric Exchange. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.

Donnelly-Nolan, Julie M. 1987. Medicine Lake Volcano and Lava Beds Naional Monument, California. In Centennial Field Guide Volume 1, edited by M. L. Hill, pp. 289-294. Geological Society of American Cenennial Field Guide, Cordilleran Section.

Donnelly-Nolan, Julie M. 1988. A Magmatic Model of Medicine Lake Volcano, California. Journal of Geophysical Research 93:4,412-4,420.

Donnelly-Nolan, Julie M. 1992. Medicine Lake Volcano and Lava Beds National Monument. Calfornia Geology 45:145-153.

Donnelly-Nolan, Julie M., B. Carter Hearn, Jr., Garniss H. Curtis, and Robert E. Drake. 1981. Geochronology and Evolution of the Clear Lake Volcanics. In Research in the Geysers-Clear Lake Geothermal Area, Northern California, edited by Robert J. McLaughlin and Julie M. Donnelly-Nolan, pp. 47-60. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1141.

Donnelly-Nolan, Julie M., Duane E. Champion, C. Dan Miller, Timothy L. Grove, and Deborah A. Trimble. 1990. Post-11,000-Year Volcanism at Medicine Lake Volcano, Cascade Range, Northern California. Journal of Geophysical Research 95B:19,693-19,704.

Drucker, Philip. 1937. The Tolowa and Their Southwest Oregon Kin. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 36:221-299.

Duffield, Wendell A., Charles A. Bacon, and G. Brent Dalrymple. 1980. Volcanism, Geochronology, and Structure of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California. Journal of Geohysical Research 85B:2,381-2,404.

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Eerkens, Jelmer W., Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Michael D. Glascock, Craig E. Skinner, and Sharon A. Waechter. 2007. Reduction Strategies and Geochemical Characterization of Lithic Assemblages: A Comparison of Three Case Studies from Western North America. American Antiquity 72:585-597.

Eerkens, Jelmer W. and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal. 2004. Are Obsidian Subsources Meaningful Units of Analysis?: Temporal and Spatial Patterning of Subsources in the Coso Volcanic Field, Southeastern California. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:21-29.

Elston, Robert G. and Charles D. Zeier. 1984. The Sugarloaf Obsidian Quarry. Report prepared for the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, by Intermountain Research. NWC Administrative Publication 313.

Ericson, Jonathon E. 1981. Exchange and Production Systems in Californian Prehistory: The Results of Hydration Dating and Chemical Characterization of Obsidian Sources. BAR International Series 110, Oxford, England.

Ericson, Jonathon E. 1982. Production for Obsidian Exchange in California. In Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange, edited by Jonathon E. Ericson and Timothy K. Earle, pp. 129-148. Academic Press, New York, New York.

Ericson, Jonathon E. 1989. Toward Flow-Specific Obsidian Hydration Rates: Coso Volcanic Field, Inyo County, California. In Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies, edited by Richard E. Hughes, pp. 13-22. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 48, Berkeley, California.

Ericson, Jonathon E. and Michael D. Glascock. 2004. Subsource Characterization: Obsidian Utilization of Subsources of the Coso Volcanic Field, Coso Junction, California, USA. Geoarchaeology 19:779-805.

Ericson, Jonathon E., Timothy A. Hagan, and Charles W. Chesterman. 1976. Prehistoric Obsidian in California II: Geologic and Geographic Aspects. In Advances in Obsidian Glass Studies: Archaeological and Geochemical Perspectives, edited by R. E. Taylor, pp. 218-239. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey.

Ernst, P., L. Johnson, and S. Crowley. 1975. BLM California Desert Project Archaeological Site Record for CA-INY-1975. Report on file at the Eastern Information Center, U.C. Riverside.

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Farmer, Malcolm F. 1937. An Obsidian Quarry Near Coso Hot Springs, California. The Masterkey 11(1):7-9.

Findlow, Frank J., Suzanne P. DeAtley, and Jonathon E. Ericson. 1978. A Tentative Hydration Rate for the Obsidian from the Borax Lake Source, Lake County, California. In Obsidian Dates II, edited by C. W. Meighan and P. I. Vanderhoeven, pp. 133-137. University of California Institute of Archaeology Monograph 6, Los Angeles, California.

Fox, Kenneth F. 1983. Tectonic Setting of Lake Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Rocks in Part of the Coast Ranges North of San Francisco, California. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1239.

Frederickson, David A. 1989. Spatial and Temporal Patterning of Obsidian Materials in the Geysers Region. In Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies, edited by Richard E. Hughes, pp. 95-109. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 48, Berkeley, California.

Fredrickson, David. 1991. Recent Excavations Near Bridgeport. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 25(2):13-14.

Fredrickson, David A., Janine Loyd, Ted Jones, Sue-Ann Schroder, and Tom Origer. 2006. The Coso - Casa Diablo Hydration Conundrum. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 19:151-156.

Fredrickson, David A. and Gregory C. White. 1988. The Clear Lake Basin and Early Complexes in California's North Coast Ranges. In Early Human Occupation in Far Western North America: The Clovis-Archaic Interface, edited by Judith A. Willig, C. Melvin Aikens, and John L. Fagan, pp. 75-86. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers No. 21, Carson City, Nevada.

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Garfinkel, Alan P. 2003. Dating "Classic" Coso Sheep Style Petroglyphs in the Coso Range and El Paso Mountains: Implications for Regional Prehistory. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 27(4):34-37.

Garfinkel, Alan P. and Robert M. Yohe II. 2004. Antiquity and Function: Humboldt Basal-notched Bifaces in the Southwestern Great Basin. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 24:103-126.

Gary, Mark A. and Deborah L. McLear-Gary. 1990. The Caballo Blanco Biface Cache, Mendocino County, California (CA-MEN-1608). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12:19-27.

Gilreath, Amy J. and William R. Hildebrandt. 1996. Archaeological Investigations Within the Coso Volcanic Field. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 30(3):1, 3-5.

Gilreath, Amy J. and William R. Hildebrandt. 1997. Prehistoric Use of the Coso Volcanic Field. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 56, Berkeley, California.

Gold, Alan P. 2005. Linguistic Archaeology: Prehistoric Population Movements and Cultural Identity in the Southwest Great Basin and Far Southern Sierra Nevada. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, California.

Goldberg, Susan K., Elizabeth J. Skinner, and Jeffrey F. Burton. 1990. Archaeological Excavations at Sites CA-MNO-574, -577, -578, and -833: Stoneworking in Mono County, California. Report prepared for the California Department of Transportation, Bishop, California, by INFOTEC Research, Inc., Sonora, California.

Goldschmidt, Walter R. and H. E. Driver. 1943. The Hupa White Deerskin Dance. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 35:103-143.

Gould, Richard A. 1966. The Wealth Quest Among the Tolowa Indians of Northwestern California. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110(1):67-89.

Grove, T., J. Donnelly-Nolan, and T. Housh. 1997. Magmatic Processes That Generated the Rhyolite of Glass Mountain, Medicine Lake Volcano, N. California. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 127:205-223.

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Hall, Matthew C. and Robert J. Jackson. 1989. Obsidian Hydration Rates in California. In Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies, edited by Richard E. Hughes, pp. 31-58. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 48, Berkeley, California.

Hamusek, Blossom M. 1993. What X Equals: The Archaeological and Geological Distribution of "Source X" Tuscan Obsidian in Northern California. Unpublished Master's Thesis, California State University, Chico, California.

Hamusek, Blossom M. 1995. The Tuscan Obsidian Source of Northern California: Archaeological Implications and Geochemical Variability. In Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, Volume 8, edited by Martin D. Rosen, Susan M. Hector, and Don Laylander, pp. 13-32. Society for California Archaeology, San Diego, California.

Hardesty, Donald L. and S. Fox. 1974. Archaeological Investigations in Northern California. Nevada Archaeological Survey Research Paper No. 4, Reno, Nevada.

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Hughes, Richard E. 1986. Diachronic Variability in Obsidian Procurement Patterns in Northeast California and Southcentral Oregon. University of California Publications in Anthropology 17, Berkeley, California.

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