List of Contributors .......................................... iii
List of Figures ................................................. v
List of Tables ............................................... viii
Preface and Acknowledgements ................................... ix
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
Chapter 1
Introduction: Obsidian Sourcing in the North Pacific Rim
Region and Beyond It ............................................ 1
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin and Michael D. Glascock
Northeast Asia
Chapter 2
A Review of Archaeological Obsidian Studies on Hokkaido
Island (Japan) .................................................. 9
Masami Izuho and Wataru Hirose
Chapter 3
Prehistoric Procurement of Obsidian from Sources on Honshu
Island (Japan) ................................................. 27
Takashi Tsutsumi
Chapter 4
Obsidian Trade Between Sources on Northwestern Kyushu Island
and the Ryukyu Archipelago (Japan) During the Jomon Period ..... 57
Hiroki Obata, Isao Morimoto, and Susumu Kakubuchi
Chapter 5
Provenance Study of Obsidian Artefacts Excavated from
Palaeolithic Sites on the Korean Peninsula ..................... 73
Nam-Chul Cho, Jong-Chan Kim, and Hyung-Tae Kang
Chapter 6
Obsidian Provenance Studies on Kamchatka Peninsula (Far
Eastern Russia): 2003-9 Results ................................ 89
Andrei V. Grebennikov, Vladimir K. Popov, Michael D.
Glascock, Robert J. Speakman, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, and
Andrei V. Ptashinsky
Chapter 7
Bridging the Gap Between Two Obsidian Source Areas in
Northeast Asia: LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Obsidian Artefacts
from the Kurile Islands of the Russian Far East ............... 121
S. Colby Phillips
Chapter 8
Crossing Mountains, Rivers, and Straits: a Review of the
Current Evidence for Prehistoric Obsidian Exchange in
Northeast Asia ................................................ 137
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
North America and Mesoamerica
Chapter 9
Long-Distance Exchange of Western North American Obsidian ..... 155
Carolyn D. Dillian
Chapter 10
Trace Element Characterisation of Archaeologically
Significant Volcanic Glasses from the Southern Great Basin
of North America .............................................. 165
Richard E. Hughes
Chapter 11
Procurement and Consumption of Obsidian in the Early
Formative Mixteca Alta: a View from the Nochixtlán Valley,
Oaxaca, Mexico ................................................ 183
Jeffrey P. Blomster and Michael D. Glascock
Chapter 12
Geochemical Characterisation of Obsidian in Western Mexico:
the Sources in Jalisco, Nayarit, and Zacatecas ................ 201
Michael D. Glascock, Phil C. Weigand, Rodrigo Esparza
López, Michael A. Ohnersorgen, Mauricio Garduño Ambriz,
Joseph В. Mountjoy, and J. Andrew Darling
Chapter 13
Thoughts and Inference on Prehistoric Obsidian Source
Exploitation in the Pacific Rim and Beyond .................... 219
M. Steven Shackley
Index ......................................................... 225
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