Nevada Source References
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Amick, Daniel S. 1997. Geochemical Analysis of Obsidian Paleoindian Points from the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Current Research in the Pleistocene 14:97-99.

Amick, Daniel S. 2004. A Possible Ritual Cache of Great Basin Stemmed Bifaces from the Terminal Pleistocene - Early Holocene Occupation of NW Nevada, USA. Lithic Technology 29:119-145.

B

Bailey, Jeff. 1992. X-Ray Fluorescence Characterization of Volcanic Glass Artifacts from Wilson Butte Cave, Idaho. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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.

Beck, Charlotte and George T. Jones. 1990a. The Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Archaeology of Butte Valley, Nevada: Three Seasons' Work. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12:231-261.

Beck, Charlotte and George T. Jones. 1990b. Toolstone Selection and Lithic Technology in Early Great Basin Prehistory. Journal of Field Archaeology 17:283-299.

Beck, Charlotte and George T. Jones. 1994. Dating Surface Assemblages Using Obsidian Hydration. In Dating in Exposed and Surface Contexts, edited by Charlotte Beck, pp. 47-76. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Boulanger, Matthew H., Thomas R. Jamison, Craig Skinner, and Michael D. Glascock. 2007. Analysis of an Obsidian Biface Reportedly Found in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont. Archaeology of Eastern North America 35:81-92.

C

Castor S. B. And C. D. Henry. 2000. Geology, Geochemistry, and Origin of Volcanic Rock-Hosted Uranium Deposits in Northwestern Nevada and Southeastern Oregon, USA. Ore Geology Reviews 16(1-2):1-40.

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.

Conrad, Walter K. 1984. The Mineralogy and Petrology of Compositionally Zoned Ash Flow Tuffs, and Related Silicic Volcanic Rocks, from the McDermitt Caldera Complex, Nevada-Oregon. Journal of Geophysical Research 89(B10):8639-8664.

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Ekren, E. B., D. H. McIntyre, and E. H. Bennett. 1984. High-Temperature, Large-Volume, Lavalike Ash-Flow Tuffs Without Calderas in Southwest Idaho. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1272.

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.

G

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.

Graf, Kelly E. 2001. Paleoindian Technological Provisioning in the Western Great Basin. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Greene, Robert C. 1976. Volcanic Rocks of the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada-Oregon. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-753.

H

Haarklau, Lynn. 2005a. Predicting Western Shoshone Obsidian Procurement Through Socioeconomic Patterns: Steward's Research Validated. In Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study, by Lynn Haarklau, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer, pp. 51-73. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Haarklau, Lynn. 2005b. What's The Point: Projectile Point Collections and Typology. In Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study, by Lynn Haarklau, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer, pp. 75-114. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Haarklau, Lynn with a contribution from Richard E. Hughes. 2001. Investigation of Geochemical Variability in Obsidian Raw Material and Artifact Sources on the North Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Haarklau, Lynn, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer. 2005. Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Harding, Anne E., Robert B. Scott, Harold H. Hehnert, and Lawrence W. Snee. 1995. Evidence of Kane Springs Wash Caldera in the Meadow Valley Mountains, Southeastern Nevada. In Geologic Studies in the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau Transition in Southeastern Nevada, Southwestern Utah, and Northwestern Arizona, edited by R. B. Scott and E. C. Swadley, pp. 135-179. U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2056.

Hartwell, William T. 1998. Shoshone Peak Obsidian: A Newly Discovered Source for Nodules Found Along Fortymile, Yucca, and Topopah Washes on the Nevada Test Site (Abstract). Poster presented at the 26th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, October, 1998, Bend, Oregon.

Hartwell, William T. and Daniel S. Amick. 1993. Archaeological Investigations of Early Land Use at the Midway Valley Site: An Opportunistic Quarry on the Nevada Test Site, Southern Nye County, Nevada. Current Research in the Pleistocene 10:57-58.

Hughes, Richard E. 1983. X-Ray Fluorescence Characterization of Obsidian. In The Archaeology of Monitor Valley: 2. Gatecliff Shelter, by D. H. Thomas. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 59(1):401-408.

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.

Hughes, Richard E. 1990. Appendix C: Obsidian at James Creek Shelter, and Trace Element Geochemistry of Some Northeastern Nevada Volcanic Glasses. In The Archaeology of James Creek Shelter, Nevada, edited by R. G. Elston and E. Budy, pp. 297-305. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 115, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hughes, Richard E. and Robert L. Smith. 1993. Archaeology, Geology, and Geochemistry in Obsidian Provenance Studies, in Effects of Scale on Archaeological and Geoscientific Perspectives, edited by J. K. Stein and A. R. Linse, pp. 79-91. Geological Society of America Special Paper 283, Boulder, Colorado.

Hutchins, James and Dwight D. Simons. 2000. Obsidian Studies in the Truckee Meadows, Nevada. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 22:151-163.

J

Johnson, Lynn and Lynn Haarklau. 2005. Results of the Regional Obsidian Projectile Point Sourcing Study. In Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study, by Lynn Haarklau, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer, pp. 115-152. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Johnson, Lynn and David L. Wagner. 2005. Obsidian Source Characterization Study. In Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study, by Lynn Haarklau, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer, pp. 25-50. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Jones, George T. and Charlotte Beck. 1990. An Obsidian Hydration Chronology of Late Pleistocene-early Holocene Surface Assemblages from Butte Valley, Nevada. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12:84-100.

Jones, George T. and Charlotte Beck. 1992. Chronological Resolution in Distributional Archaeology. In Space, Time, and Archaeological Landscapes, edited by Jacqueline Rossignol and LuAnn Wandsnider, 167-192. Plenum Press, New York, New York.

Jones, George T., Charlotte Beck, Eric E. Jones, and Richard E. Hughes. 2003. Lithic Source Use and Paleoarchaic Foraging Territories in the Great Basin. American Antiquity 68(1):5-38.

K

Kappelle, William A. 1998. Rockhounding Nevada. Falcon Publishing, Guilford, Connecticut.

M

Mitchell, James R. 1991. Gem Trails of Nevada. Gem Guides Book Co., Baldwin Park. California.

Moore, Joe. 1997. Great Basin Tool-Stone Sources, Revised: The NDOT Obsidian and Stone Tool Sourcing Project: 1999 Progress Report (Draft). Unpublished report by the Nevada Department of Transportation, Carson City, Nevada.

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

Nelson, Fred W. and Richard D. Holmes. 1979. Trace Element Analysis of Obsidian Sources and Artifacts from Western Utah. Antiquities Section Selected Papers 6(15):65-80. Salt Lake City.

Noble, D. C., J. K. McCormack, E. H. McKee, M. L. Silberman, and A. B. Wallace. 1988. Time of Mineralization in the Evolution of the McDermitt Caldera Complex, Nevada-Oregon, and the Relation of Middle Miocene Mineralization in the Northern Great Basin to Coeval Regional Basaltic Magmatic Activity. Economic Geology 83: 859-863.

Noble, D. C. and D. F. Parker. 1974. Peralkaline Silicic Volcanic Rocks of the Western United States. Bulletin Volcanologique 38:803-827.

Novak, Steven W. 1984. Eruptive History of Rhyolitic Kane Springs Wash Volcanic Center, Nevada. Journal of Geophysical Research 89(B10):8603-8615.

Novak, Steven W. 1985. Geology and Geochemical Evolution of the Kane Springs Wash Volcanic Center, Lincoln County, Nevada. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

R

Rusco, Mary K. and Jonathan O. Davis. 1987. Studies in the Archaeology, Geology and Paleontology at Rye Patch Reservoir, Pershing County, Nevada. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers No. 20, Carson City, Nevada.

Rytuba, James J. 1976. Geology and Ore Deposits of the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada-Oregon. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-535.

Rytuba, James J.1994 Evolution of Volcanic and Tectonic Features in Caldera Settings and Their Importance in the Localization of Ore Deposits. Economic Geology 89:1687-1696.

S

Sappington, Robert L. 1981. A Progress Report on the Obsidian and Vitrophyre Sourcing project. Idaho Archaeologist 4(4):4-17.

Shackley, M. S. 1994. Intersource and Intrasource Geochemical Variability in Two Newly Discovered Archaeological Obsidian Sources in the Southern Great Basin. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 16:118-129.

Skinner, Craig E. 2005. Appendix D: Results of X-Ray Fluorescence Trace Element Provenance Analysis of Project Obsidian Artifacts. In Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study, by Lynn Haarklau, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer, pp. D1-D105. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Skinner, Craig E. and Jennifer J. Thatcher. 2005. Appendix A: X-Ray Fluorescence Trace Element Provenance Analysis of Geologic Sources of Obsidian from the Nevada Test and Training Range and Surrounding Region, Nevada and California. In Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study, by Lynn Haarklau, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Strong, Mary F. 1971. Desert Gem Trails: A Field Guide to the Gem and Mineral Localities of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts in California and Adjacent Areas of Nevada. Gem Guides Book Co., Baldwin Park, California.

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Thomas, David H. 1983. The Archaeology of Monitor Valley 2:2. Gatecliff Shelter. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. 59, Pt. 1.

Torres, John. 1998. Juan Obsidian Clast Source. Lithic Technology 23:85-89.

Tuohy, Donald R. 1984. Implications of Obsidian Hydration Readings and Source Determinations for 28 Presumed "Early Man" Points from Nevada. In Obsidian Studies in the Great Basin, edited by Richard E. Hughes, pp. 193-221. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Faciliet No., 45, Berkeley, California.

W

Wagner, David L. 2005. Geologic Overview of the Nevada Test and Training Range and Adjacent Areas. In Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study, by Lynn Haarklau, Lynn Johnson, David L. Wagner, Richard E. Hughes, Craig E. Skinner, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Keith Myhrer, pp. 7-23. Report prepared for Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Wallace, Andy B., John W. Drexler, Norman K. Grant, and Donald C. Noble. 1980. Icelandite and Aenigmatite-Bearing Pantellerite from the McDermitt Caldera Complex, Nevada-Oregon. Geology 8(8):380-384.

Wallace, Andy B. and Michael W. Roper. 1981. Geology and Uranium Deposits Along the Northeast Margin, McDermitt Caldera Complex, Oregon. In Uranium in Volcanic and Volcaniclastic Rocks, edited by P. C. Goodell and A. C. Waters, pp. 73-79. AAPG Studies in Geology No. 13.

Wilke, Philip J. and Adella B. Schroth. 1989. Lithic Raw Material Prospects in the Mojave Desert, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11(2):1476-174.

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Young, D. C. 2002. Part 6. Secondary Obsidian Sources of the Madeline Plains: Paleolandscapes and Archaeological Implications. In Boundary Lands: Archaeological Investigations Along the California-Great Basin Interface, edited by K. R. McGuire, pp. 75-84. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers Number 24, Carson City, Nevada.

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