New Mexico Obsidian Source References

New Mexico Source References

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Bailey, R. A. and R. L. Smith. 1978. Guide to Jemez Mountains and Española Basin. In Guidebook to Rio Grande Rift in New Mexico and Colorado, compiled by J. W. Hawley, pp. 184-196. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Circular 163, Socorro, New Mexico.

Baugh, Timothy G. and Robert E. Bell. 1988. Obsidian Hydration Studies in the Southern Plains. InObsidian Dates IV, edited by C. W. Meighan and Janet L. Scalise, pp. 100-104. University of California Institute of Archaeology Monograph 29, Los Angeles, California.

Baugh, Timothy G. and Fred W. Nelson, Jr. 1987. New Mexico Obsidian Sources and Exchange on the Southern Plains. Journal of Field Archaeology 14:313-329.

Bayman, James M. 1995. Rethinking "Redistribution" in the Archaeological Record: Obsidian Exchange at the Marana Platform Mound. Journal of Anthropological Research 51:37-63

Bowman, Kathleen K. 1987. An Analytical Study of Obsidian from the Middle Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico. Master's Thesis, Eastern New Mexico University: Portales, New Mexico, 103 pp.

Boyer, W. W. and P. Robinson. 1956. Obsidian Artifacts of Northwestern New Mexico and Their Correlation With Source Material. El Palacio, Nov/Dec:333-345.

Burns, George R. 1981. Obsidian Hydration Analysis on Artifacts from the Rio Grande National Forest. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Cameron, R. L. and R. L. Sappington. 1984. Obsidian Procurement at Chaco Canyon, A.D. 500-1200. In Recent Research on Chaco Prehistory, edited by W. J. Judge and J. D. Shelberg, pp. 153-172. Division of Cultural Research, National Park Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Christiansen, Eric H., M. F. Sheridan, and D. M. Burt. 1986. The Geology and Geochemistry of Cenezoic Topaz Rhyolites from the Western United States. Geological Society of America Special Paper 205.

Church, Tim. 2000. Distribtion and Sources of Obsidian in the Rio Grande Gravels of New Mexico. Geoarchaeology 15:649-678.

Church, Tim and Carlos Caraveo. 1996. The Magnetic Susceptibility of Southwestern Obsidian: An Exploratory Study. North American Archaeology 17:271-285.

Crow, Melinda. 1995. The Rockhound's Guide to New Mexico. Falcon Press Publishing Co., Inc., Helena, Montana.

Doell, Richard R., G. B. Dalrymple, R. L. Smith, and R. A. Bailey. 1968. Paleomagnetism, Potassium-Argon Ages, and Geology of Rhyolites and Associated Rocks of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico. In Studies in Volcanology: A Memoir in Honor of Howel Williams, edited by R. R. Coats, R. L. Hay, and C. A. Anderson, pp. 211-248. Geological Society of America Memoir 116.

Ferguson, Jeffrey R. and Craig E. Skinner. 2003. Colorado Obsidian? Preliminary Results of a Statewide Database pf Trace Element Analysis. Southwestern Lore 69(4):35-50.

Findlow, Frank J. and M. Bolognese. 1980. An Initial Examination of Obsidian Exchange in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Kiva 45:227–251.

Findlow, Frank J. and M. Bolognese. 1982a. Preliminary Analysis of Prehistoric Obsidian Use Within the Mogollon Area. In Mogollon Archaeology, edited by P. H. Beckett, pp. 297-315. Acoma Books, Ramona, California.

Findlow, Frank J. and M. Bolognese. 1982b. Regional Modeling of Obsidian Procurement in the American Southwest. In Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange, edited by J. E. Ericson and T. K. Earle, pp. 53-81. Academic Press, New York, New York.

Findlow, Frank J. and M. Bolognese. 1984a. Boundary Effects and the Analysis of Prehistoric Exchange Systems. In Exploring the Limits: Frontiers and Boundaries in Archaeology, edited by Frank J. Findlow and M. Bolognese, pp. 173-187. BAR International Series 223, Oxford, England.

Findlow, Frank J. and M. Bolognese. 1984b. Economic Aspects of Prehistoric Quarry Use: A Case Study in the American Southwest. In Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production, edited by Jonathon E. Ericson and Barbara A. Purdy, pp.77-82. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York.

Glascock, Michael D., Raymond Kunselman, and Dabiel Wolfman. 1999. Intrasource Chemical Differentiation of Obsidian in the Jemez Mountains and Taos Plateau, New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 26:861-868.

Goff, Fraser, Jamie N. Gardner, and Greg Valentine. 1990. Geology of the St. Peter's Dome Area, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Geologic Map 69, Socorro, New Mexico.

Graves, William M. 2005. Obsidian Procurement Among the Jumanos Pueblos, New Mexico, A.D. 1300-1670s. Kiva 71:7-35.

Harro, Douglas R. 1997. Patterns of Lithic Raw Material Procurement on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

Heiken, Grant, F. Goff, J. N. Gardner, W. S. Baldridge, J. B. Hulen, D. L. Nielsen, and David Vaniman. 1990. The Valles/Toledo Caldera Complex, Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 18:27-53.

Hester, Thomas R., Frank Asaro, and Fred Stross. 1980. Source Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts in Texas: New Results. Houston Archaeological Society Newsletter 68:12-16.

Hester, Thomas R. and Jimmy L. Mitchell. 1974. Source Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts from McMullen County, Southern Texas. Lower Plains Archaeological Society Bulletin 4:25-32.

Hughes, Richard E. 1988. Archaeological Significance of Geochemical Contrasts Among Southwestern New Mexico Obsidians. Texas Journal of Science 40:297-307.

Hughes, Richard E. 1988b Notes on the Obsidian from the Fort Hood Area of Central Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society 59:193-199.

Johnson, Eileen, V. T. Holliday, F. Asaro, F. Stross, and H. Michel. 1985. Trace Element Analysis of Paleoindian Obsidian Artifacts from the Southern High Plains. Current Research in the Pleistocene 2:51-53.

LaBelle, Jason M. and David J. Meltzer. 1996. Reinvestigation of Marks Beach: A Possible Early/Mid-Holocene Campsite on Blackwater Draw. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13:31-33.

LeTourneau, Philippe D., M. Steven Shackley, James M. Warnica, and Jan Cummings. 1996. Analysis of Obsidian Folsom Artifacts from New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13:59-61.

Lipman, P. and H. Mehnert, 1979. The Taos Plateau Volcanic Field, Northern Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico. In Rio Grande Rift: Tectonics and Magmatism, American Geophysical Union: Washington, D. C., pp. 289-311.

Loeffler, Bruce M., D. T. Vaniman, W. S. Baldridge, and M. Shafiqullah. 1988. Neogene Rhyolites of the Northern Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research 93(B6):6157-6167.

Lyons, Ray D. and Ann M. Johnson. 1994. Archaeological Investigations at the Lehman Cave Midden (5EL12). Southwestern Lore 60:6-32.

Mathien, Frances J. 1993. Exchange Systems and Social Stratification Among the Chaco Anasazi. In The American Southwest and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange, edited by Jonathon E. Ericson and Timothy G. Baugh, pp. 27-63. Plenum Press, New York, New York.

Mauldin, Raymond, Patricia A. Gilman, and Christopher M. Stevenson. 1996. Mogollon Village Revisited: Recent Chronometric Results and Interpretations. Kiva 61:385-400.

Mitchell, James R. 2001. Gem Trails of New Mexico. Gem Guides Book Co., Baldwin Park, California.

Mitchell, Jimmy L., Thomas R. Hester, Frank Asaro, and Fred Stross. 1980. Notes on Trace Element Analysis of Obsidian from Hutchinson and Roberts Counties in the Texas Panhandle. Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society 51:301-308.

Naeser, C. W., G. A. Izett, and J. D. Obradovich. 1980. Fission-Track and K-Ar Ages of Natural Glasses. U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1489, 31 pp.

Nelson, Fred W., Jr. 1984. X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Some Western North American Obsidians. In Obsidian Studies in the Great Basin, edited by Richard E. Hughes, Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 45: Berkeley, California, pp. 27-62.

Newman, Jay R. and Roger L. Nielsen. 1985. Initial Notes on the X-Ray Fluorescence Sourcing of Northern New Mexico Obsidians. Journal of Field Archaeology 12:377-383.

Newman, Jay R. and Roger L. Nielsen. 1987. Initial Notes on the X-Ray Fluorescence Characterization of the Rhyodacite Sources of the Taos Plateau, New Mexico. Archaeometry 29:262-274.

Peterson, Jane, Douglas R. Mitchell, and M. Steven Shackley. 1997. The Social and Economic Contexts of Lithic Procurement: Obsidian from Classic-Period Hohokam Sites. American Antiquity 62:231-259.

Russell, Glenn S. 1981. Preliminary Hydration Rates for the Polvadera Peak and Jemez Mountains Obsidian Sources, New Mexico. In Obsidian Dates III, edited by C. M. Meighan and G. S. Russell, pp. 142-145. University of California Institute of Archaeology Monograph 16, Los Angeles, California.

Shackley, M. Steven. 1990. Early Hunter-Gatherer Procurement Ranges in the Southwest: Evidence from Obsidian Geochemistry and Lithic Technology. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tempe, Arizona.

Shackley, M. Steven. 1995. Sources of Archaeological Obsidian in the Greater American Southwest: An Update and Quantitative Analysis. American Antiquity 60:531-551.

Shackley, M. Steven. 1996. Range and Mobility in the Early Hunter-Gatherer Southwest. In Early Formative Adaptations in the Southern Southwest, edited by Barbara J. Roth, pp. 5-16. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin.

Shackley, M. Steven. 1998. Geochemical Differentiation and Prehistoric Procurement of Obsidian in the Mount Taylor Volcanic Field, Northwest New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 25:1073-1082.

Shackley, M. Steven. 2005. Obsidian: Geology and Archaeology in the North American Southwest. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona.

Smith, R. L., R. A. Bailey, and C. S. Ross. 1970. Geologic Map of Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Maps I-0571, scale 1:125,000.

Spell, Terry and Philip R. Kyle. 1989. Petrogenesis of Valle Grande Member Rhyolites, Valles Caldera, New Mexico: Implications for Evolution of the Jemez Mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research 94(B8):10,379-10,396.

Stevenson, Christopher M. and Maria Klimkiewicz. 1990. X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Obsidian Sources in Arizona and New Mexico. Kiva 55:235-243.

Stevenson, Christopher M. and Michael O. McCurry. 1990. Chemical Characterization and Hydration Rate Development for New Mexican Obsidian Sources. Geoarchaeology 5:149-170.

Umschler, D. B. 1975. Source of the Evan's Mound Obsidian. Unpublished Master's Thesis, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology: Socorro, New Mexico.

Voynick, Stephen M. 1997 New Mexico Rockhounding: A Guide to Minerals, Gemstones, and Fossils. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana.

Walsh, Michael R. 1998. Lines in the Sand: Competition and Stone Selection on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. American Antiquity 63:573-593.

Winter, Joseph C. 1983. Jemez Mountain Obsidian Exchange: A View from Redondo Valley. In Cultural Resources Management: High Altitude Adaptations in the Southwest, edited by Joseph C. Winter, pp. 91-107. USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Wolfman, Daniel. 1994. Jemez Mountains Chronology Study. Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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