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On the Identification of Pre-Hispanic Obsidian Mines in Southern Hidalgo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas H. Charlton
Thomas H. Charlton*
Affiliation:
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Abstract

An examination of reports by Tylor (1861), Holmes (1900, 1919), and Spence and Parsons (1967) describing obsidian mines near Cerro de las Navajas in southern Hidalgo indicates that not one but three mine groups have been visited and described.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 176 - 177
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1969

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