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Comment on “Tomato Springs: The Identification of a Jasper Trade and Production Center in Southern California”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

M. Steven Shackley
M. Steven Shackley*
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Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
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Abstract

Marie Cottrell's recent (1985) proposal that prehistoric long distance exchange of jasper occurred between the California coast and inland deserts is most unlikely in light of the presence of abundant secondary siliceous sediment sources (including jasper) along the nearby southern California coast. The obsidian hydration based site chronology at Tomato Springs, founded on non-source provenienced obsidian, is equally problematic. A number of other lesser potential fallacies serve to undermine the assumption of long distance transport of a raw material that was available locally.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 616 - 623
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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