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A Simplified Procedure for Photographing Obsidian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bruce J. Lutz
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin
Daniel L. Slaby
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin

Abstract

Obsidian has proved to be a difficult substance to photograph and various methods have been devised to render it opaque so that this may be more easily accomplished. The method described is simple and requires very inexpensive equipment.

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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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