Title Archaeometry of pre-Columbian sites and artifacts : proceedings of a symposium organized by the UCLA Institute of Archaeology and the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California, March 23-27, 1992 / David A. Scott and Pieter Meyers, editors

Published [Marina Del Rey, CA] : Getty Conservation Institute, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (x, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Getty Publications virtual library. CMalG Contents The Materials Science of Material Culture: Examples from the Andean Past / Heather Lechtman -- Pre-Columbian Pottery: Research in the Maya Region / Ronald L. Bishop -- Kiln Firing at Batan Grande: Today and in Formative Times / Ursel Wagner, Rupert Gebhard, Enver Murad, Josef Riederer, Izumi Shimada and Fritz Wagner -- Ceramics Among the Hohokam: Modeling Social Organization and Exchange / David R. Abbot and David M. Schaller -- New World Obsidian: Recent Investigations / Michael D. Glascock -- Obsidian Artifacts from Oaxaca, Mexico: Source Identification and Hydration Dating / J. Michael Elam, Michael D. Glascock and Hector Neff -- Obsidian from Pueblo Grande, Arizona: Modeling Social and Economic Patterns in Lithic Procurement / Jane Peterson, Douglas R. Mitchell and M. Steven Shackley -- Beads from Sipan: A Functional Analysis / Leonard Gorelick and John Gwinnett -- Silver and Lead in the Late Prehistory of the Mantaro Valley, Peru / Ellen G. Howe and Ulrich Petersen -- Pre-Hispanic Copper Alloy Production at Batan Grande, Peru: Interpretation of the Analytical Data for Ore Samples / J.F. Merkel, I. Shimada, C.P. Swann and R. Doonan -- Native Copper Technology and Society in Eastern North America / S. Terry Childs -- Chemical Seriation of Northeastern North American Archaeological Sites Using Copper Artifacts / R.G.V. Hancock, L.A. Pavlish, R.M. Farquhar, P.J. Julig and W.A. Fox Notes Description based on print version record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Restricted Unrestricted online access star CMalG Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 CMalG digitized 2013 Getty Publications committed to preserve pda CMalG Description based on print version record Subject Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses. Archaeology -- Methodology -- Congresses. America -- Antiquities -- Congresses Form Electronic book Author Scott, David A., 1948- Meyers, Pieter, 1941- University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Archaeology. Getty Conservation Institute.

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