Central Oregon obsidian from a submerged early Holocene archaeological site beneath Lake Huron
| Autor: | Ashley Lemke, Elisabeth P. Sonnenburg, Alex J. Nyers, John M. O'Shea, Brendan S. Nash, Danielle J. Riebe, Jeffery R. Ferguson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Michigan
Raw Materials Social Sciences Woodland Geographical locations Social Networking Oregon 0601 history and archaeology Materials Holocene History Ancient Ontario Multidisciplinary Quaternary Period 060102 archaeology Geology 06 humanities and the arts Archaeology Physical Sciences Medicine Physical Anthropology Research Article Volcanic Glass Obsidian Pleistocene Human Migration Science Materials Science Igneous Geology Surface Water Paleoanthropology Humans 060101 anthropology Holocene Epoch Spectrometry X-Ray Emission Biology and Life Sciences Paleontology Geologic Time United States Lakes Anthropology Archaeological Dating North America Earth Sciences Cenozoic Era Glass Hydrology People and places |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0250840 (2021) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Obsidian, originating from the Rocky Mountains and the West, was an exotic exchange commodity in Eastern North America that was often deposited in elaborate caches and burials associated with Middle Woodland era Hopewell and later complexes. In earlier times, obsidian is found only rarely. In this paper we report two obsidian flakes recovered from a now submerged paleolandscape beneath Lake Huron that are conclusively attributed to the Wagontire obsidian source in central Oregon; a distance of more than 4,000 km. These specimens, dating to ~ 9,000 BP, represent the earliest and most distant reported occurrence of obsidian in eastern North America. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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