Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico, Postclassic chronology: Hydration analysis of obsidian from Cihuatecpan, an Aztec-period village

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 267-280

  Evans, Susan Toby ^a   Freter, AnnCorinne ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0956536100001462     Document Type: Article

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