Geochemical and microwear analysis of an obsidian artifact from the Brown Bluff Site (3WA10), Arkansas

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 47, Issue 180, 2002, Pages 73-76

  Hughes, Richard E ^a   Kay, Marvin ^b   Green, Thomas J ^c  

^a Geochemical Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c Arkansas Archeological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwear analysis; Obsidian; X ray fluorescence source analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750586412     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2002.11932111     Document Type: Article

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