Archaeometry of pre-columbian sites and artifacts : proceedings of a symposium organized by the UCLA Institute of Archaeology and the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California, March 23-27, 1992 /
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| Language: | Inglés |
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[Los Angeles, California] :
Getty Conservation Institute,
c1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Pte. 1.Anthropology and materials science. Cap. 1. The materials science of material culture: examples from the Andean past
- Pte. 2.Ceramics. Cap. 1. Pre-columbian pottery: research in the Maya region ; Cap. 2. Kiln firing in Batán Grande: today and in formative times ; Cap. 3. Ceramics among the Hohokam: modeling social organization and exchange
- Pte. 3.Stone and obsidian. Cap. 1. New world obsidian: recent investigations ; Cap. 2. Obsidian artifacts from Oaxaca, Mexico: source identification and Hydration dating ; Cap. 3. Obsidian from Pueblo Grande, Arizona: modeling social and economic patterns in lithic procurement ; Cap. 4. Beads from Sipan: a functional analysis
- Pte. 4.Metals. Cap. 1. Silver and lead in the late prehistory of the Mantaro Valley, Peru ; Cap. 2. Pre-hispanic copper alloy production at Batán Grande, Peru: interpretation of the analytical date for ore samples ; Cap. 3. Native copper technology and society in Eastern North America ; Cap. 4. Chemical seriation of Northeastern North American archaeological sites using copper artifacts ; Cap. 5. Pre-columbian gold processing at Putushio, South Ecuador: the archaeometallurgical evidence ; Cap. 6. Pre-hispanic platinum alloys: their composition and use in Ecuador and Colombia ; Cap. 7. Pre-hispanic goldwork from the Museo de América, Madrid: a new set of analyses
- Pte. 5.Archaeological sites and dating. Cap. 1. A methodology for the study of buried archaeological sites ; Cap. 2. Exceptional molecular preservation in the fossil record: the archaeological, conservation, and scientific challenge ; Cap. 3. Stratigraphic dating and cultural sequence of pre-hispanic Northern South America ; Cap. 4. Coloration in Etowah textiles from burial Nº 57 ; Cap. 5. Radiocarbon dates of Teponaztlis from Mexico.