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ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NO. 37
OBSIDIAN ANALYSES AND PREHISTORIC NEAR EASTERN TRADE: 7500 TO 3500 B.C.
BY GARY A. WRIGHT
ANN ARBOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 1969
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FOREWORD
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HIS WORK is a rewriting and reediting of my doctoral dissertation which was submitted to the University of Michigan in June, 1968. I wish to thank the members of my doctoral committee, Professors Robert Whallon, Jr. (chairman), Richard Beardsley, William Farrand, Acton A. Gordus, James B. Griffin, and Jeffrey Parsons, for their helpful comments and suggestions during the preparation of the dissertation. The obsidian studies were initiated at the University of Michigan l,.lnder the co-direction of J. B. Griffin, of the Museum of Anthropology and Dr. A. A. Gordus, of the Department of Chemistry, and followed the lead of Cann and Renfrew's (1964) work on Mediterranean obsidians. I should like to thank Drs. Robert J. Braidwood, Halet