Micro-traces of manufacture: lapidary technology in pre-Columbian Costa Rica
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| Natura: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2023 |
| Descrizione: | Celtiform pendants (500 B.C.- A.D. 900) are carved from polished green stone, and characterized by axe form. Their superior region is typified by human or animal carving while the inferior axe portion is not decorated. This paper aims to answer a basic question, “How did crafts people behave with the artefact at the time of manufacturing?”. Celtiform pendants themselves have plenty of crafting traits, such as polish, groove-snaps, perforating, and striations, which may help us to reconstruct the crafting activity and its procedure. This paper presents the unique traces of lapidary technologies by using digital microscope (Keyence VHX-5000) and conducts an experimental program to test the hypothesized manufacturing activities of celtiform pendants. |
| Stato: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Istituzione: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lingua: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/52780 |
| Accesso online: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/52780 |
| Keyword: | Experimental archaeology Greenstones Lapidary technologies Pre-Columbian arts Celtiforms pendants Arqueología experimental Piedras verdes Tecnología lapidaria Arte precolombino Colgantes hachoides |