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SOURCE PROVENANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBSIDIAN FROM MESA COUNTY, COLORADO

Abstract

The analysis here of 8 obsidian artifacts from sites in Mesa County, western Colorado indicates an extremely diverse assemblage with artifacts produced from sources in northern Arizona (Government Mountain), northern New Mexico (Valles Rhyolite-Cerro del Medio), Idaho (Malad), Wyoming (Teton Pass), and western Utah (Wild Horse Canyon). These sources are hundreds of kilometers from Mesa County in three cardinaldirections (west, south, north).

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