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Prehispanic Obsidian Mines in Southern Hidalgo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael W. Spence  and
Jeffrey Parsons
Michael W. Spence
Affiliation:
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Jeffrey Parsons
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Abstract

The writers recently examined the famous Cerro de las Navajas obsidian mines described by William H. Holmes. Evidence was found there of extensive Aztec period working. The high proportion of mines to workshops suggests that the obsidian was only roughly processed at the mines, most of it having been carried elsewhere to be worked into final form.

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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 542 - 543
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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