"Obsidian Spirits Just Speak Once"óCalifornia Indians in a Geothermal Land
- Key words
- Obsidian, Indians, California
- Location
- California
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 2005
- Session
- 2. Environmental and Societal Aspects
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 0204
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Abstract
Over millennia, California Indians mined, quarried, and worked obsidian; traded the precious geothermal glass near and far; and incorporated it into their mythologies. California Indians were the state's first geothermal developers.
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