Download. CALIFORNIA SOURCE MAP | U.S. Adapted from Gilreath and Hildebrandt, 2011 ), Fig. Cumulative obsidian hydration profile from quarries in the Coso Volcanic Field in the basin ranges area of California, showing the peak in obsidian production around 3500 B.P. The Coso Range of eastern California is located immediately south of Owens Lake (dry), east of the Sierra Nevada, and west of the Argus Range.The southern part of the range lies in the restricted Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and the northern part of the range is designated as the Coso Range Wilderness. By Alan Garfinkel. In visiting and relocating most of the projectile point petroglyph panels known to occur in the Coso Range, we identified a few more distinctive and even more realistically rendered elements not previously identified. The Coso Range has a concentration of strikingly beautiful and highly consistent rock art engravings, consisting of animals, figures and symbols. Little Lake Pinto Projectile Points Made with Coso Range Obsidian (Age 1408–2106 to 3806–5882 years BP). The Coso Range is located to the west, and the Panamint Range to the east. Covering over fifty thousand acres, these BLM lands are wide-open stretches of scrub-covered desert edged by the volcanic peaks of the Coso Mountain Range. The Coso Range is a 90 square-mile area in eastern California, USA, with 35,000 rock art petroglyphs and carvings. Well-grounded estimates for the total number of petroglyph elements in the entire Coso Range locality now suggest a minimum tally of 100,000 individual elements (Gilreath 1997).

An Ancient Bighorn Hunting Cult: The Mysterious Rock Pictures of the Cosos. SOURCE NAME: Most commonly-used name for the geochemical source OTHER NAMES: Alternate names or names of source outcrops belonging to same geochemical source group Click on the PDF link for an Adobe Acrobat document with additional source information. By Alan Garfinkel. An Ancient Bighorn Hunting Cult: The Mysterious Rock Pictures of the Cosos. The Coso Volcanic Field is located in Inyo County, California, at the western edge of the Basin and Range geologic province and northern region of the Mojave Desert. Covering over fifty thousand acres, these BLM lands are wide-open stretches of scrub-covered desert edged by the volcanic peaks of the Coso Mountain Range. The Coso Range Wilderness is a BLM property of rugged beauty near the town of Olancha in south-east California. JEROME KING . By Alan Garfinkel. Geochemical Characterization of Obsidian Subsources from the Coso Range, California Using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for Archaeological Investigations Anne Draucker California State University – Bakersfield, 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, CA 93311 1.