Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Obsidian Sourcing in the North Pacific Rim Region and Beyond It / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin and Michael D. Glascock
  • A Review of Archaeological Obsidian Studies on Hokkaido Island (Japan) / Masami Izuho and Wataru Hirose
  • Prehistoric Procurement of Obsidian from Sources on Honshu Island (Japan) / Takashi Tsutsumi
  • Obsidian Trade Between Sources on Northwestern Kyushu Island and the Ryukyu Archipelago (Japan) During the Jomon Period / Hiroki Obata, Isao Morimoto, and Susumu Kakubuchi
  • Provenance Study of Obsidian Artefacts Excavated from Palaeolithic Sites on the Korean Peninsula / Nam-Chul Cho, Jong-Chan Kim, and Hyung-Tae Kang
  • Obsidian Provenance Studies on Kamchatka Peninsula (Far Eastern Russia): 2003-9 Results / Andrei V. Grebennikov et al.
  • Bridging the Gap Between Two Obsidian Source Areas in Northeast Asia: LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Obsidian Artefacts from the Kurile Islands of the Russian Far East / S. Colby Phillips
  • Crossing Mountains, Rivers, and Straits: a Review of the Current Evidence for Prehistoric Obsidian Exchange in Northeast Asia / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
  • Long-Distance Exchange of Western North American Obsidian / Carolyn D. Dillian
  • Trace Element Characterisation of Archaeologically Significant Volcanic Glasses from the Southern Great Basin of North America / Richard E. Hughes
  • Procurement and Consumption of Obsidian in the Early Formative Mixteca Alta: a View from the Nochixtlán Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico / Jeffrey P. Blomster and Michael D. Glascock
  • Geochemical Characterisation of Obsidian in Western Mexico: the Sources in Jalisco, Nayarit, and Zacatecas / Michael D. Glascock et al.
  • Thoughts and Inference on Prehistoric Obsidian Source Exploitation in the Pacific Rim and Beyond / M. Steven Shackley.