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Science 8 August 1975:
Vol. 189. no. 4201, pp. 459 - 460
DOI: 10.1126/science.189.4201.459
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Turquoise Mine and Artifact Correlation for Snaketown Site, Arizona

Anne Colberg Sigleo 1

1 Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721

Trace element analyses on turquoise from 24 mines in the southwestern United States indicate that the turquoise artifacts from Snaketown site in south-central Arizona came from the Himalaya mine near Halloron Springs, California. The correlation of artifact and mine turquoise in the Southwest is a means of determining prehistoric exchange patterns.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)