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Toolstone geography of the Pacific Northwest

Ozbun, Terry L., (editor.). Adams, Ron L., (editor.). SFU Faculty Publication. (Added Author). Archaeology Press, (publisher.).

Summary: Examines lithic raw material sources in the Pacific Northwest, the uses and distribution of the toolstones quarried from those sources, and the archaeological or anthropological inferences that studies of toolstone geography provide.

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  • ISBN: 9780864913784
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (iv, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
  • Publisher: Burnaby, B.C., Canada : Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Toolstone geography and the larger lithic landscape / Terry L. Ozbun -- Nephrite/jade : the preeminent Celt stone of the Pacific Northwest / Jesse Morin -- Primary toolstone sources and Pre-contact Period quarrying behaviour in the Thompson River drainage of South-Central British Columbia / Mike K. Rousseau -- Chert artifact-material correlation at Keatley Creek using geochemical techniques / Heather Kendall and Brandi Lee MacDonald -- Implications between technological organization and portable x-ray fluorescence analysis on lithic material use at two rockshelter sites on the southern Northwest coast / Rudy Reimer and Tyrone Hamilton -- Toolstone geography in the Northern Cascades of Washington and adjacent areas / Robert R. Mierendorf and Kevin E. Baldwin -- Elk Pass obsidian and pre-contact band territory in the Southern Washington Cascades / Richard H. McClure, Jr. -- Columbia Hills toolstone geography / Ron L. Adams -- Estimating biface production output at an basaltic andesite workshop in the Blue Mountains / Kenneth C. Reid, Matthew J. Root, and Daryl E. Ferguson -- New perspectives on the Stockhoff Quarry : toolstone procurement at a quarry complex in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon / Nicholas Smits and Sara J. Davis -- Ancient trade routes for obsidian cliffs and Newberry volcano glass in the Pacific Northwest / Thomas J. Connolly, Craig E. Skinner, and Paul W. Baxter -- Glass Buttes Oregon : 14,000 years of continuous use / Daniel O. Stueber and Craig E. Skinner -- Differential selection of lithic raw materials by prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Upper Yellowstone River Valley, Montana/Wyoming / Jacob S. Adams and Douglas H. MacDonald -- Obsidian use in the Willamette Valley and adjacent western cascades of Oregon / Paul W. Baxter, Thomas J. Connolly, and Craig E. Skinner -- Upper Klamath RIver obsidian frequencies / Joanne M. Mack.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2017).
Subject: Stone implements -- Northwest, Pacific
Tools, Prehistoric -- Northwest, Pacific
Paleo-Indians -- Northwest, Pacific
Formations (Geology) -- Northwest, Pacific
Archaeological geology -- Northwest, Pacific
Northwest, Pacific -- Antiquities

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