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CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY
Number 5
July 1968
PAPERS ON MESOANERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY
Department of Anthropology
Berkeley
CONTENTS
I.     INVESTIGATIONS AT LA VENTA, 1967,
by R. F. Heizer, P. Drucker and J. A. Graham   .     .     .
I I .  THREE SANDSTONE MONUMENTS FROM LA VENTA ISLAND,
by M. W. Stirling               .     .              .          35
III.   THE EL NESON MONUMENT AT ANGEL R. CABADA,
VERACRUZ, by Philip Drucker .      .     .     .     .     .    41
IV.    ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN OBSIDIANS BY X-RAY FLUORESCENCE
AND NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS., by F. H. Stross,
J. R. Weaver, G. E. A. Wyld, R. F. Heizer and
J. A. Graham    .     .      .     .     .     .     .     .    59
V.     "FINGER-PRINTING" OF SOME MESOAMERICAN OBSIDIAN
ARTIFACTS, by R. N. Jack and R. F. Heizer      .     .     .    81
VI.    NOTES ON THE PAPALHUAPA SITE, GUATEMALA,
by J. A. Graham and R. F. Heizer   .     .     .     .     .   101
VII.   THE 1968 INVESTIGATIONS AT LA VENTA,
by R. F. Heizer, J. A. Graham and L. K. Napton       .     .   127
APPENDIX I:  LA VENTA CERAMICS, by P. S. Hallinan,
R. D. Ambro and J. F. O'Connell    .     .     .     .     .   155
APPENDIX II: NEW STONE MONUMENTS FROM LA VENTA, 1968,
by C. W. Clewlow, Jr. and C. R. Corson   .     .     .     .   171