M-F Guerra
Biographic Data
| ID | 8895277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M-F Guerra |
| GIVEN NAMES | M-F |
| FAMILY NAME | Guerra |
| SIGNATURE | GUERRA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0971-9487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Goldworking in Mycenaean Thessaly: Technological study of the gold objects from the four tholos tombs in the Bay of Volos
Assay and refining of gold in the post-medieval Islamic world: Potential and reality
This paper describes the analysis of the Moroccan gold coins, jewellery and ingots from the 17th-century Salcombe Bay Treasure. Their trace element content gives information on the likely provenance of the gold and their fineness gives information on both quality control and refining methods. These can be compared to the methods described in the contemporary Al-asdāf al-munfadda can ahkām cilm sancat addīnār wal-fidda, an important Moroccan treat…
New insight into Bronze Age goldwork from northern Portugal. Bracelets, spirals and torcs from the region of Vila Real
Analytical study of Bronze Age goldwork from Northwest Iberia
On the way to the New Kingdom. Analytical study of Queen Ahhotep's gold jewellery (17th Dynasty of Egypt)
The gold jewellery in the collection of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum bearing the names of Queen Ahhotep and King Ahmose I (17th–18th Dynasties, 16th c. B.C.) was analysed using μPIXE, XRF, and SEM-EDS. The items were formed by casting, hammering and rolling, were decorated by chasing, and were mounted using hard-solders obtained by adding copper to the base-alloys. The jewellery bearing the name of Ahhotep is made e…
Simbolismo de las narigueras peruanas y aproximación a su manufactura durante el Periodo Intermedio Temprano
Este trabajo presenta una visión general del significado e importancia que tuvieron las narigueras en las culturas peruanas precolombinas; asimismo las relaciona con las narigueras colombianas y mexicanas, y también nos introduce a su simbología. A partir de los ejemplares conocidos, se ha destacado la variedad de colores utilizados en su fabricación y, por tanto, la diversidad de tecnologías utilizadas. Para lograr un primer acercamiento a estas…
Small gold bells and miniature keros: An approach to understanding the technologies and alloys employed in Pre-Columbian Andes
Unveiling the art of René Lalique with XRF and Raman spectroscopy - Technological innovation in jewellery production
An Inca silver figurine at National Museums Scotland: Technological study
The hollow silver male miniature figurine from National Museums Scotland is one of the tallest specimens made in precious metals attributed to the Incas. In spite of showing the expected characteristics of this type of Inca production for ritual offerings —regular proportions and standing pose, representation of its gender, bulging cheek associated to coca leaves chewing and elongated earlobes— this figurine differs from the regular figurines by …
Estudio tecnológico de las estatuillas antropomorfas y de los tupus miniatura del hallazgo de Paucartambo (Cusco, Perú)
En el trabajo se describen los estudios realizados por microscopía óptica y fluorescencia de rayos X (FRX) portátil a seis estatuillas y siete tupus miniatura, objetos inkas de sacrificios rituales, ofrendas en aleación de plata y en aleación de oro, provenientes del sitio arqueológico de Chimur, en Chayllabamba, provincia de Paucartambo; es parte de la colección del Museo Inka del Cusco (Perú). Este conjunto incluye la única estatuilla antropomo…
Las estatuillas incas del musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac: Variedad tipológica y cronología de las producciones
La colección de orfebrería inca del musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (París) fue constituida en el siglo XIX como resultado de la recolección o de las compras realizadas por diversos viajeros y coleccionistas. Esta se compone de estatuillas en miniatura de oro, plata o cobre, cuya variedad formal, estilística y material interroga tanto su atribución cultural como la autenticidad de ciertos ejemplares. El estudio contextual, así como el análi…
La orfebrería de los Andes en la época inca (siglos XV-XVI)
El conocimiento actual de la orfebrería inca es limitado. A pesar de los descubrimientos esporádicos de piezas en contexto arqueológico, la gran mayoría de los objetos en oro y plata existentes provienen del proceso de saqueo y de destrucción de tumbas, templos y santuarios de altura, consecutivos a la conquista española, careciendo de documentación contextual. De hecho, su función se ha muchas veces perdido, desconociéndose su nivel de represent…
Los tupus y estatuillas de plata inka: Una aproximación a sus aleaciones
El tupu, tupo o prendedor es un objeto que ha sido, y sigue siendo, parte de la vestimenta femenina en los Andes desde hace más de 1700 años. No fue usado solamente en vida, ya que hay evidencias arqueológicas de su uso en las capacochas o como ofrenda a las huacas, entre otros. Ha sido elaborado en distintos metales y aleaciones, según la jerarquía de la portadora y la época de uso, desde oro, plata y tumbaga, hasta el cobre, bronce y latón. Fue…
Inca figurines from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin: An analytical study of some typical and atypical productions
Fourteen hollow and one cast anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines produced in Incan times for ritual offerings from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin were selected to investigate the technologies and alloys used for their fabrication with portable optical microscopy and non-destructive XRF elemental analysis. This group of gold and silver figurines includes typical specimens of the Inca production, such as the four silver figurines from the…
Glass and gold: Analyses of 4th–12th centuries Levantine mosaic tesserae. A contribution to technological and chronological knowledge
Los Aros De Plata De Patagonia Septentrional: Aportes De La Colección Henry De La Vaulx (1896) Sobre Forma, Tecnología Y Metalurgia
Los estudios sobre joyera indgena de Patagonia han privilegiado las colecciones procedentes de Araucana (centro-sur de Chile), considerando en menor escala la produccin platera de la vertiente oriental de los Andes en el siglo diecinueve. Este artculo presenta los resultados obtenidos del estudio de los aros de plata reunidos en 1896 por Henry de La Vaulx en la toldera del cacique Valentn Saygeque , famoso por el tesoro monetario y platero acumul…
Goldwork in Ancient Egypt: Workshop practices at Qurneh in the 2nd Intermediate Period
Technological study of gold jewellery pieces dating from the Middle Kingdom to the New Kingdom in Egypt
This paper presents a technological study of items of Egyptian jewellery from the collections of the National Museums Scotland: a pendant from the 19th century BC; objects from the 16th century BC royal burial unearthed at Qurneh; two gold finger-rings dated to the 14th century BC; and a group of pendants from the 13th century BC. The objects were examined using optical microscopy, X-radiography and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). In addition…
Precious metals determination in ancient coins by portable ED-XRF spectroscopy with a 238Pu source
A portable X-ray fluorescence system (pXRF) was employed to analyse a set of gold, silver and billon coins from the collection of the Museu Histórico Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (MHN), struck during the Brasil Colônia period, under the Dutch occupation, and in Portuguese mints under the reigns of Fernando I (1367 to 1383) and his successor João I (1383 to 1433). The experimental setup consisted of a mini Si-PIN detector and a radioactive source of…
Analytical study of the manufacturing techniques of Kushan gold jewellery (National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan)
Little is known about goldsmithing during the period of the Great Kushans. In order to undertake a first approach to the technological choices and the gold alloys used in the fabrication of the different parts of Kushan objects, five gold jewellery items from the collections of the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan containing wires and granulation were transported from Dushanbe to Paris to be studied within the European research projec…
In-situ examination and analysis of the gold jewellery from the Phoenician tomb of Kition (Cyprus)
The Phoenician tomb discovered in Kition in 1998 yielded some of the most impressive gold jewellery items recovered by archaeological excavations in Cyprus. Seal finger-rings, lunate earrings, necklace pendants, bracelets and a richly decorated elbow fibula exemplify the goldsmith’s skill in the 8th-7th century BC. The aim of this work is to describe and illustrate the goldsmith’s techniques with low magnification micrographs and to determine the…
La tombe mycénienne de Kazanaki (Volos) et le mythe de la Toison d’or
Parmi les sites mycéniens de Thessalie, Dimini, situé près de Volos, pourrait correspondre au fameux centre mycénien d’Iolkos, ville gouvernée par Pélias et qui est à l’origine du mythe de Jason et de la Toison d’or, célèbre peau de bélier reliée à la récupération d’or des alluvions.Une nouvelle tombe mycénienne à tholos, datée de 1350 av. J.-C., découverte en 2004 à Kazanaki, a livré un nombre très important d’objets en or. L’examen et l’analyse…
Archéologie précolombienne et analyses scientifiques: La figurine d’El Angel, une œuvre composite d’orfèvrerie de la culture La Tolita Tumaco (Équateur-Colombie)
Une petite figurine en or provenant du site El Angel est associée aux traditions orfèvres Tumaco La Tolita, alors qu’elle provient d’une région hors de l’aire culturelle de cette civilisation, à l’extérieur de la frange côtière. L’étude, au moyen de méthodes non-destructives, des techniques de mise en forme, assemblage et décoration utilisées pour sa fabrication montre que la figurine a subi un remontage moderne, mais que la grande majorité de se…
The jewellery from the casket of Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen of Portugal, produced at Castellani’s workshop
The casket of Queen Maria Pia of Savoy, belonging to the collection of the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, contains a set of thirty-three pieces of gold jewellery in the archaeological style created by the Castellani workshop in Rome. This family of jewellers, fascinated by the ancient techniques of gold working, restored but also reproduced several antique pieces, giving rise to the emergence of the so-called ‘archaeological jewellery’, very popular …
The first gold coins struck in Brazil: Myth or reality
Besieged in Pernambuco by the Portuguese, the Dutch issued in 1645 and 1646, to pay their soldiers, the first coin inscribed “BRASIL”. Named obsidional, it is said to have been fabricated by melting either African gold or gold tableware. It is only in 1694 that the Brazilian itinerant mint was created in Bahia, and successively closed and transferred to Rio de Janeiro in 1698, to Pernambuco in 1700, and back to Rio de Janeiro in 1702. This itiner…
Gold traces to trace gold
Goldwork in Ancient Egypt: Workshop practices at Qurneh in the 2nd Intermediate Period
Glass and gold: Analyses of 4th–12th centuries Levantine mosaic tesserae. A contribution to technological and chronological knowledge
Precious Metals and Provenance Enquiries using LA-ICP-MS
The circulation of South American precious metals in Brazil at the end of the 17th century
Analytical study of Bronze Age goldwork from Northwest Iberia
In-situ examination and analysis of the gold jewellery from the Phoenician tomb of Kition (Cyprus)
The Phoenician tomb discovered in Kition in 1998 yielded some of the most impressive gold jewellery items recovered by archaeological excavations in Cyprus. Seal finger-rings, lunate earrings, necklace pendants, bracelets and a richly decorated elbow fibula exemplify the goldsmith’s skill in the 8th-7th century BC. The aim of this work is to describe and illustrate the goldsmith’s techniques with low magnification micrographs and to determine the…
Technological study of gold jewellery pieces dating from the Middle Kingdom to the New Kingdom in Egypt
This paper presents a technological study of items of Egyptian jewellery from the collections of the National Museums Scotland: a pendant from the 19th century BC; objects from the 16th century BC royal burial unearthed at Qurneh; two gold finger-rings dated to the 14th century BC; and a group of pendants from the 13th century BC. The objects were examined using optical microscopy, X-radiography and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). In addition…
Goldworking in Mycenaean Thessaly: Technological study of the gold objects from the four tholos tombs in the Bay of Volos
New insight into Bronze Age goldwork from northern Portugal. Bracelets, spirals and torcs from the region of Vila Real
Small gold bells and miniature keros: An approach to understanding the technologies and alloys employed in Pre-Columbian Andes
Unveiling the art of René Lalique with XRF and Raman spectroscopy - Technological innovation in jewellery production
Los Aros De Plata De Patagonia Septentrional: Aportes De La Colección Henry De La Vaulx (1896) Sobre Forma, Tecnología Y Metalurgia
Los estudios sobre joyera indgena de Patagonia han privilegiado las colecciones procedentes de Araucana (centro-sur de Chile), considerando en menor escala la produccin platera de la vertiente oriental de los Andes en el siglo diecinueve. Este artculo presenta los resultados obtenidos del estudio de los aros de plata reunidos en 1896 por Henry de La Vaulx en la toldera del cacique Valentn Saygeque , famoso por el tesoro monetario y platero acumul…
Precious metals determination in ancient coins by portable ED-XRF spectroscopy with a 238Pu source
A portable X-ray fluorescence system (pXRF) was employed to analyse a set of gold, silver and billon coins from the collection of the Museu Histórico Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (MHN), struck during the Brasil Colônia period, under the Dutch occupation, and in Portuguese mints under the reigns of Fernando I (1367 to 1383) and his successor João I (1383 to 1433). The experimental setup consisted of a mini Si-PIN detector and a radioactive source of…
Analytical study of the manufacturing techniques of Kushan gold jewellery (National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan)
Little is known about goldsmithing during the period of the Great Kushans. In order to undertake a first approach to the technological choices and the gold alloys used in the fabrication of the different parts of Kushan objects, five gold jewellery items from the collections of the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan containing wires and granulation were transported from Dushanbe to Paris to be studied within the European research projec…
Archéologie précolombienne et analyses scientifiques: La figurine d’El Angel, une œuvre composite d’orfèvrerie de la culture La Tolita Tumaco (Équateur-Colombie)
Une petite figurine en or provenant du site El Angel est associée aux traditions orfèvres Tumaco La Tolita, alors qu’elle provient d’une région hors de l’aire culturelle de cette civilisation, à l’extérieur de la frange côtière. L’étude, au moyen de méthodes non-destructives, des techniques de mise en forme, assemblage et décoration utilisées pour sa fabrication montre que la figurine a subi un remontage moderne, mais que la grande majorité de se…
The jewellery from the casket of Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen of Portugal, produced at Castellani’s workshop
The casket of Queen Maria Pia of Savoy, belonging to the collection of the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, contains a set of thirty-three pieces of gold jewellery in the archaeological style created by the Castellani workshop in Rome. This family of jewellers, fascinated by the ancient techniques of gold working, restored but also reproduced several antique pieces, giving rise to the emergence of the so-called ‘archaeological jewellery’, very popular …
The 17th Dynasty gold necklace from Qurneh, Egypt
In 1908, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie discovered a rich intact burial of an adult and child at Qurneh, near Luxor. Stylistically, the burial has been dated to the late 17th Dynasty, in the 16th century BC. The complete burial group came to Edinburgh in 1909. A recent examination of the rings of the necklace found with the adult burial is presented as part of a wider study of the mummy collections of the National Museums Scotland (NMS). The n…
Modern and ancient gold jewellery attributed to the Etruscans: A science-based study
A fibula with a lion and a pair of cluster earrings from the collection of the Florence National Museum of Archaeology, attributed to the Etruscans and said to originate from Populonia but suspected to be modern productions, were studied in the framework of the European project AUTHENTICO. They were compared to genuine objects from this same collection and from the collection of the National Museums Scotland. The study was carried out in situ in …
Sur les traces de l'argent du Potosî
Suivre un métal d'une provenance donnée ' à la trace ' n'est pas une simple métaphore. Les alliages métalliques (et donc monétaires) contiennent en effet à côté des éléments majeurs (or-argent-cuivre pour les monnaies d'or ; argentcuivre pour les monnaies d'argent) que l'on mesure en pourcentage, des éléments- traces présents en quantités infimes, mesurées en parties pour million ou ppm (10 6 g/g). Ces traces constituent comme la carte d'identité…
Sur les traces de l'argent du Potosî
Suivre un métal d'une provenance donnée ' à la trace ' n'est pas une simple métaphore. Les alliages métalliques (et donc monétaires) contiennent en effet à côté des éléments majeurs (or-argent-cuivre pour les monnaies d'or ; argentcuivre pour les monnaies d'argent) que l'on mesure en pourcentage, des éléments- traces présents en quantités infimes, mesurées en parties pour million ou ppm (10 6 g/g). Ces traces constituent comme la carte d'identité…
Les monnaies d'argent du Centre-Ouest de la Gaule. Premiers résultats d'analyses
We present here the first results of a work following an interdisciplinary study of the gold issues from Gaul's Atlantic front. Using neutron activation analysis we determined the composition of more than one hundred of Gallic west-center silver coins. It allows us to begin to precise their structure and relative chronology as well as to study the relation between gold and silver and the alteration techniques used by the manufactors of the silver…
Precious Metals and Provenance Enquiries using LA-ICP-MS
The circulation of South American precious metals in Brazil at the end of the 17th century
Gold traces to trace gold
Techniques de décoration sans apport de matière par mesure optique sans contact de l’état de surface: Première approche aux bijoux mérovingiens
Un protocole de mesure topographique de surface, sans contact, par imagerie confocale à champ étendu, a été appliquée pour la première fois à l’analyse de traces d’outils en orfèvrerie dans le but de déterminer la technique de décoration et le type d’outil employés ainsi que le geste de l’orfèvre. Dans le cadre de cette étude nous nous sommes intéressés aux techniques de décoration sans apport de matière (par déformation plastique ou enlèvement d…
Technological study of gold jewellery pieces dating from the Middle Kingdom to the New Kingdom in Egypt
This paper presents a technological study of items of Egyptian jewellery from the collections of the National Museums Scotland: a pendant from the 19th century BC; objects from the 16th century BC royal burial unearthed at Qurneh; two gold finger-rings dated to the 14th century BC; and a group of pendants from the 13th century BC. The objects were examined using optical microscopy, X-radiography and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). In addition…
Precious metals determination in ancient coins by portable ED-XRF spectroscopy with a 238Pu source
A portable X-ray fluorescence system (pXRF) was employed to analyse a set of gold, silver and billon coins from the collection of the Museu Histórico Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (MHN), struck during the Brasil Colônia period, under the Dutch occupation, and in Portuguese mints under the reigns of Fernando I (1367 to 1383) and his successor João I (1383 to 1433). The experimental setup consisted of a mini Si-PIN detector and a radioactive source of…
Analytical study of the manufacturing techniques of Kushan gold jewellery (National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan)
Little is known about goldsmithing during the period of the Great Kushans. In order to undertake a first approach to the technological choices and the gold alloys used in the fabrication of the different parts of Kushan objects, five gold jewellery items from the collections of the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan containing wires and granulation were transported from Dushanbe to Paris to be studied within the European research projec…
In-situ examination and analysis of the gold jewellery from the Phoenician tomb of Kition (Cyprus)
The Phoenician tomb discovered in Kition in 1998 yielded some of the most impressive gold jewellery items recovered by archaeological excavations in Cyprus. Seal finger-rings, lunate earrings, necklace pendants, bracelets and a richly decorated elbow fibula exemplify the goldsmith’s skill in the 8th-7th century BC. The aim of this work is to describe and illustrate the goldsmith’s techniques with low magnification micrographs and to determine the…
La tombe mycénienne de Kazanaki (Volos) et le mythe de la Toison d’or
Parmi les sites mycéniens de Thessalie, Dimini, situé près de Volos, pourrait correspondre au fameux centre mycénien d’Iolkos, ville gouvernée par Pélias et qui est à l’origine du mythe de Jason et de la Toison d’or, célèbre peau de bélier reliée à la récupération d’or des alluvions.Une nouvelle tombe mycénienne à tholos, datée de 1350 av. J.-C., découverte en 2004 à Kazanaki, a livré un nombre très important d’objets en or. L’examen et l’analyse…
Archéologie précolombienne et analyses scientifiques: La figurine d’El Angel, une œuvre composite d’orfèvrerie de la culture La Tolita Tumaco (Équateur-Colombie)
Une petite figurine en or provenant du site El Angel est associée aux traditions orfèvres Tumaco La Tolita, alors qu’elle provient d’une région hors de l’aire culturelle de cette civilisation, à l’extérieur de la frange côtière. L’étude, au moyen de méthodes non-destructives, des techniques de mise en forme, assemblage et décoration utilisées pour sa fabrication montre que la figurine a subi un remontage moderne, mais que la grande majorité de se…
The jewellery from the casket of Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen of Portugal, produced at Castellani’s workshop
The casket of Queen Maria Pia of Savoy, belonging to the collection of the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, contains a set of thirty-three pieces of gold jewellery in the archaeological style created by the Castellani workshop in Rome. This family of jewellers, fascinated by the ancient techniques of gold working, restored but also reproduced several antique pieces, giving rise to the emergence of the so-called ‘archaeological jewellery’, very popular …
The first gold coins struck in Brazil: Myth or reality
Besieged in Pernambuco by the Portuguese, the Dutch issued in 1645 and 1646, to pay their soldiers, the first coin inscribed “BRASIL”. Named obsidional, it is said to have been fabricated by melting either African gold or gold tableware. It is only in 1694 that the Brazilian itinerant mint was created in Bahia, and successively closed and transferred to Rio de Janeiro in 1698, to Pernambuco in 1700, and back to Rio de Janeiro in 1702. This itiner…
The 17th Dynasty gold necklace from Qurneh, Egypt
In 1908, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie discovered a rich intact burial of an adult and child at Qurneh, near Luxor. Stylistically, the burial has been dated to the late 17th Dynasty, in the 16th century BC. The complete burial group came to Edinburgh in 1909. A recent examination of the rings of the necklace found with the adult burial is presented as part of a wider study of the mummy collections of the National Museums Scotland (NMS). The n…
Modern and ancient gold jewellery attributed to the Etruscans: A science-based study
A fibula with a lion and a pair of cluster earrings from the collection of the Florence National Museum of Archaeology, attributed to the Etruscans and said to originate from Populonia but suspected to be modern productions, were studied in the framework of the European project AUTHENTICO. They were compared to genuine objects from this same collection and from the collection of the National Museums Scotland. The study was carried out in situ in …
Goldwork in Ancient Egypt: Workshop practices at Qurneh in the 2nd Intermediate Period
Glass and gold: Analyses of 4th–12th centuries Levantine mosaic tesserae. A contribution to technological and chronological knowledge
Los Aros De Plata De Patagonia Septentrional: Aportes De La Colección Henry De La Vaulx (1896) Sobre Forma, Tecnología Y Metalurgia
Los estudios sobre joyera indgena de Patagonia han privilegiado las colecciones procedentes de Araucana (centro-sur de Chile), considerando en menor escala la produccin platera de la vertiente oriental de los Andes en el siglo diecinueve. Este artculo presenta los resultados obtenidos del estudio de los aros de plata reunidos en 1896 por Henry de La Vaulx en la toldera del cacique Valentn Saygeque , famoso por el tesoro monetario y platero acumul…
An Inca silver figurine at National Museums Scotland: Technological study
The hollow silver male miniature figurine from National Museums Scotland is one of the tallest specimens made in precious metals attributed to the Incas. In spite of showing the expected characteristics of this type of Inca production for ritual offerings —regular proportions and standing pose, representation of its gender, bulging cheek associated to coca leaves chewing and elongated earlobes— this figurine differs from the regular figurines by …
Estudio tecnológico de las estatuillas antropomorfas y de los tupus miniatura del hallazgo de Paucartambo (Cusco, Perú)
En el trabajo se describen los estudios realizados por microscopía óptica y fluorescencia de rayos X (FRX) portátil a seis estatuillas y siete tupus miniatura, objetos inkas de sacrificios rituales, ofrendas en aleación de plata y en aleación de oro, provenientes del sitio arqueológico de Chimur, en Chayllabamba, provincia de Paucartambo; es parte de la colección del Museo Inka del Cusco (Perú). Este conjunto incluye la única estatuilla antropomo…
Las estatuillas incas del musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac: Variedad tipológica y cronología de las producciones
La colección de orfebrería inca del musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (París) fue constituida en el siglo XIX como resultado de la recolección o de las compras realizadas por diversos viajeros y coleccionistas. Esta se compone de estatuillas en miniatura de oro, plata o cobre, cuya variedad formal, estilística y material interroga tanto su atribución cultural como la autenticidad de ciertos ejemplares. El estudio contextual, así como el análi…
La orfebrería de los Andes en la época inca (siglos XV-XVI)
El conocimiento actual de la orfebrería inca es limitado. A pesar de los descubrimientos esporádicos de piezas en contexto arqueológico, la gran mayoría de los objetos en oro y plata existentes provienen del proceso de saqueo y de destrucción de tumbas, templos y santuarios de altura, consecutivos a la conquista española, careciendo de documentación contextual. De hecho, su función se ha muchas veces perdido, desconociéndose su nivel de represent…
Los tupus y estatuillas de plata inka: Una aproximación a sus aleaciones
El tupu, tupo o prendedor es un objeto que ha sido, y sigue siendo, parte de la vestimenta femenina en los Andes desde hace más de 1700 años. No fue usado solamente en vida, ya que hay evidencias arqueológicas de su uso en las capacochas o como ofrenda a las huacas, entre otros. Ha sido elaborado en distintos metales y aleaciones, según la jerarquía de la portadora y la época de uso, desde oro, plata y tumbaga, hasta el cobre, bronce y latón. Fue…
Inca figurines from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin: An analytical study of some typical and atypical productions
Fourteen hollow and one cast anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines produced in Incan times for ritual offerings from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin were selected to investigate the technologies and alloys used for their fabrication with portable optical microscopy and non-destructive XRF elemental analysis. This group of gold and silver figurines includes typical specimens of the Inca production, such as the four silver figurines from the…
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