September 1965

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A N N O U N C E ME N T

The Archaeological Research Facility institutes with
this publication the series CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY which will

not appear on a regular schedule but only as manuscripts and
funds to publish them are available.

Publication of the numbered REPORTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY will be continued, but
as implied by the title, will be limited to papers pertain-
ing to California and the Far West. The REPORTS, which are
published under the auspices of the Archaeological Research
Facility, provide a means of publishing data and research

results secured between 1948 and 1960 by the Archaeological
Survey of Berkeley and the Archaeological Research Facility
since that time.

It is planned that the CONTRIBUTIONS will present

short articles or brief monographic treatments of archaeo-

logical data concerning additional areas in the United States,
and Mexico and Central America.

SOURCES OF STONES USED IN PREHISTORIC

MESOANERICAN SITES

Acknowledgment is made here, with thanks, for a
grant to aid publication from the Wenner-Gren

Foundation for Anthropological Research. These
grant funds have supported this volume.

CONTENTS

SOURCES OF ROCKS USED IN OLNEC MONUNIENTS,

by Howel Williams and Robert F. Heizer  .    .     .        1

GEOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE RUINS OF MITLA AND

OTHER OAXACAN SITES, NEXICO, by Howel

Williams and Robert F. Heizer    .     .     .     .       41

STONES USED FOR COLOSSAL SCULPTURE AT OR

NEAR TEOTIHUACAN, by Robert F. Heizer

and Howel Williams                  .        .     .      55

OLMEC SCULPTURE AND STONE WORKING: A

BIBLIOGRAPHY    .     .    .     .     .                   71

ANALYSIS BY X-RAY FLUORESCENCE OF SOME

AMERICAN OBSIDIANS, by J. R. Weaver

and F. H. Stross      .    .     .     .     .     .      89

NOTES ON MESOAMERICAN OBSIDIANS AND THEIR

SIGNIFICANCE IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES,
by Robert F. Heizer, Howel Williams

and John A. Graham    .    .     .     .     .     .      94

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