"Little black rocks in the desert" : an introduction -- Obsidian petrology and geologic history -- Obsidian sources : geology, geography, and archaeology -- Beyond a "fishing expedition" : laboratory and field strategies for the discovery and analysis of archaeological obsidian in the southwest -- Obsidian in ethnohistory and the public imagination -- Range and procurement in the preceramic southwest -- Migration, ethnicity, and external relationships in the classic period -- Tonto Basin -- Gender and social identity during the Hohokam Sacaton phase -- Obsidian studies in a twenty-first-century southwestern archaeology
