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Sources of Some Obsidian Flakes from a Paleoindian Site in Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

F. H. Stross ,
H. V. Michel ,
F. Asaro  and
R. Gruhn
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Abstract

Neutron activation analysis was used to determine the chemical composition of sources of obsidian artifacts from the Paleoindian site of Los Tapiales in Guatemala with an occupation date of around 10,700 radiocarbon years ago. Three different sources were detected, all between 50 and 75 km from Los Tapiales. The predominant source represented in our ten samples was in the Rio Pixcayá area, and another was in the Tajumulco area. A third source, identified by comparison with other work, appears to be in the area of San Bartolomé Milpas Altas.

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American Antiquity , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 114 - 118
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1977

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