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MORE THAN JUST JEMEZ PUEBLO OBSIDIAN: COMMENT ON LIEBMANN'S “… LANDSCAPES OF SIGNIFICATION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2018

M. Steven Shackley  and
James L. Moore
M. Steven Shackley*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and Geoarchaeological XRF Laboratory (http://swxrflab.net/), 8100 Wyoming Blvd NE, Suite M4-158, Albuquerque, NM 87113USA
James L. Moore
Affiliation:
Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico, 7 Old Cochiti Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87504USA
*
(shackley@berkeley.edu, corresponding author).
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Abstract

Liebmann's (2017) essay on the relationship between Jemez Pueblo and the Valles Caldera of northern New Mexico seems to imply that the Jemez Pueblo had an exclusive relationship with the caldera, particularly Redondo Peak, and the major obsidian source Cerro del Medio (CDM). This is curious given that abundant obsidian provenance studies from the region exhibit equal to or nearly equal proportions of Cerro del Medio obsidian that are not considered ancestral to Jemez Pueblo. Liebmann's regional perspective based on landscape theory appears flawed by a lack of regionally specific data.

El ensayo de Liebmann (2017) sobre la relación entre Jemez Pueblo y los Valles Caldera del norte de Nuevo México parece implicar que Jemez Pueblo tenía una relación exclusiva con la caldera, particularmente Redondo Peak, y la principal fuente de obsidiana de Cerro del Medio. Esto es curioso, dado que abundantes estudios de procedencia de obsidiana llevados a cabo en la región muestran proporciones casi iguales de obsidiana de Cerro del Medio en sitios que no se consideran ancestrales a Jemez Pueblo. La perspectiva regional de Liebmann basada en la teoría del paisaje parece defectuosa por la falta de datos regionales específicos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 753 - 755
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Copyright © 2018 by the Society for American Archaeology 

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