Prehistoric Quarries and Terranes

Michael J. Shott is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Akron. His research focuses on stone-tool analysis and how the archaeological record formed, based on fieldwork in the American midcontinent, Great Basin, Mexico, and South America. He has authored four monographs, including Pottery Ethnoarchaeology in the MichoacAn Sierra, and has edited four volumes, including Works in Stone: Contemporary Perspectives on Lithic Analysis.

"Like Shott's previous work, the book is well written, well researched, and contains a wealth of information that will be of use to a variety of researchers. The book details the analysis of two obsidian quarries and walks the reader through how and why each analysis was conducted and the types of information that can be obtained via such analysis." --Andrew P. Bradbury, RPA, Principal Investigator, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lithic Specialist "This book is about the analysis of lithic artifacts from Great Basin quarries. However, the wide-ranging approaches and inferential data that Shott used to analyze the Modena and Tempiute quarries have much broader implications to the study of quarries in general, and lithic analysis as a whole. Consequently, the book will be important to lithic analysts across the world." --Edward Knell, professor of anthropology, California State University, Fullerton