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| SPRING NEWSLETTER IS OUT: For some timely information about the rapidly approaching deadline for our 2010 lab grant and other lab projects and resources, see the Spring Newsletter. For previous newsletters, take a look at the SITE INDEX on the lefthand side of the page.
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| YES - THE OBSIDIAN HYDRATION LABORATORY IS DEFINITELY OPEN: We reopened the obsidian hydration laboratory on April 1st of 2009 and plan to keep it that way. Permanently. Click HERE for the rest of the story.
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| 2010 LAB SUMMER SCHEDULE: We're on our annual summer schedule until September 1st and may be a little slow to respond, particularly if we're out in the field and out of iPhone range. If you have urgent rush jobs, please check in with us as early as possible.
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| 2010 ANNUAL LAB GRANT IS AWARDED: Our congratulations go to Dustin Kennedy, a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Click HERE for more about his research and our annual research grant.
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| DOWNLOADS: In addition to the latest lab forms and our collection of articles and reports, we're compiling a growing selection of dissertations and theses available for downloading and would like to add some more. If your graduate research involved obsidian and you would like to join the list, please let us know.
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| OBSIDIAN SOURCE CATALOG TUNEUP BEGINS: We've begun adding additional basic information to the U.S. Source Catalog. The first state up for remodeling will be Utah, currently the home of several ongoing obsidian provenance projects.
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| SELECTED OBSIDIAN SOURCE MAPS ARE NOW AVAILABLE: We're still working diligently at producing obsidian source maps for the western United States and are continuing to add to our collection on a regular basis. To see our latest additions, click HERE.
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| SUMMER FIELD WORK: After a particularly productive 2009 field work season at the lab, we're anxious to see what we'll find in 2010 - click HERE for the details.
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| FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS UPDATE: In an attempt to breathe some new life into our long-neglected FAQ, we've migrated everything to a blog format. Click HERE for an index and HERE for the specifics.
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| NEW SOURCES AND TOP OBSIDIAN SOURCES FOR THE WESTERN UNITED STATES: We've begun to compile state-by-state lists of the top obsidian sources that are represented in characterized artifact collections from each state. For this and more, click HERE.
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