Heather Lechtman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 244943 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Heather Lechtman |
| PRENOMES | Heather |
| SOBRENOME | Lechtman |
| ASSINATURA | LECHTMAN H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 218 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Escaramayu Complex
Archaeological research carried out in the altiplano locale of Escaramayu (in the community of Escara, Potosí, Bolivia), revealed a prehispanic metallurgical establishment (ninth to fifteenth centuries AD) for the extractive processing of copper ores and, to a lesser extent, lead-silver ore exploited at the nearby Pulacayo mine. The number and variety of metallurgical equipment identified in this establishment for smelting metallic ore and for re…
Andean Ores, Bronze Artifacts, and Lead Isotopes
El palacio, la plaza y la fiesta en el imperio Inca
Este libro reúne diez de los más significativos ensayos de Craig Morris (1939-2006), eminente arquéologo especialista de la civilización inca. Sus excavaciones e investigaciones interdisciplinarias en los asentamientos administrativos incas de Huánuco Pampa, La Centinela y Tambo Colorado le permitieron adquirir un profundo conocimiento de la naturaleza de la infraestrucutra estatal en la periferia del Tahuantinsuyu y de los mecanismos políticos, …
Procesamiento De Metales Durante El Horizonte Medio en El Altiplano Surandino (Escaramayu, Pulacayo, Potosí, Bolivia)
En este trabajo se presentan y se analizan los resultados alcanzados en el sector metalúrgico del sitio Pulac 050 (Escaramayu, Pulacayo, Bolivia). Los estudios desarrollados en el sector han puesto en evidencia un complejo de cuatro hornos metalúrgicos, los cuales se encuentran espacialmente asociados con un conjunto de recintos fechados en el Horizonte Medio. Restos de varios materiales incluyendo escorias, metales y minerales fueron encontrados…
Murra at Mit
(1962). I assign these articles as required reading to undergraduate students in two of the courses I teach at MIT: The Ancient Andean World, and Materials in Human Experience.The students in my classes are primarily engi-neers; others study physics or biology, architecture or economics. Some are from Mexico, and occasion-ally there are a few from the Andes. For the most part, they do not read Spanish.Many years ago I asked Murra if he would tran…
La metalurgia del bronce en los Andes Sur Centrales
This study is part of a larger investigation into the development of bronze metallurgy in the central and southcentral Andes during the Middle Horizon. It focuses on the kinds of bronze alloy produced and disseminated throughout the region that lies roughly between Tiwanaku and San Pedro de Atacama. Lead isotope analysis of bronze artifacts excavated at these two places and of a wide range of metallic ores sampled from deposits in Bolivia and Nor…
The Production of Copper–Arsenic Alloys (Arsenic Bronze) by Cosmelting
Arsenic Bronze
This article is dedicated to Ronald F. TylecoteArchaeologists and historians of metallurgy have attempted to explain the gradual abandonment of arsenic bronze in favor of tin bronze in the ancient Old world by making comparisons between the mechanical properties of the two bronzes. These comparisons purport to show the superiority of copper-tin alloys over alloys of copper and arsenic, despite an absence of data on the physical properties of the …
Axe-Monies and Their Relatives
The Production of Copper-arsenic Alloys in the Central Andes
The alloy of copper and arsenic was one of the most common metallurgical products in the central Andean area during the Late Intermediate Period (A.C. 900–1476), and a large part of that production took place at smelting sites on the north coast of what is today Peru. The research of the Battán Grande-La Leche Archaeological Project has made available for the first time a rich body of data on the smelting/refining furnaces used to win copper-arse…
Red Gold of Africa
Red, Gold of Africa
Book Reviews Red, Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture. By Eugenia W. Herbert. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp. xxiii+413; illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliogra phy, index. $32.50. This is a splendid book. There has been nothing like it since Wal ter Cline’s classic 1937 work, Mining and Metallurgy in Negro Africa, which Eugenia Herbert’s Red Gold of Africa neither supplants nor complements. They ar…
Andean Value Systems and the Development of Prehistoric Metallurgy
The rich development of metallurgical technology that arose and was sustained in the New World prior to the Spanish invasion in the 16th century took place in the Andean zone of western South America in that area which is today Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Although Andean peoples supported a highly sophisticated metallurgical tradition with the production of a broad range of metals and metal alloys, little interest or attention has been …
Material Culture
New Perspectives on Moche Metallurgy
The metal objects found in 1969 at the north Peruvian site of Loma Negra, in the region of Cerro Vicús, form one of the largest and most important single groups of Moche metal artifacts known. Since the objects were looted from burials at the site, they are without context, seriously compounding the problems of their relative chronology within the Moche sequence and of their relations with Moche material from the coast farther to the south. Metal…
News and Short Contributions
New and Short Contributions
Joseph W. Shaw, M. J. Becker, James B. Griffin, Richard I. Ford, Bruce D. Smith, James Schoenwetter, William R. Farrand, Frederick R. Matson, Robert Stuckenrath, Heather Lechtman, Garman Harbottle, Edward V. Sayre, Bernard Wailes, New and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 124-134
A Metallurgical Site Survey in the Peruvian Andes
To help document and interpret the development of pre-Columbian metallurgy prior to the Spanish invasion of the Andes, the author conducted a survey of portions of northern and southern Peru to identify and describe early metallurgical sites including mines, ore-processing areas, smelting installations. Several of the more interesting sites are discussed in detail. Coastal and highland sources of copper ores were identified, particularly along th…
A Tumbaga Object from the High Andes of Venezuela
A small, gilt tumbaga object was excavated by Erika Wagner at the habitation site of La Era Nueva, near the town of Mucuchíes, in the Venezuelan Andes during her 1967-68 field expedition. This object is the only Precolumbian metal artifact excavated in the Mucuchíes region and one of the few ever found in Venezuela. A complete study of the object, including wet chemical analysis, metallographic examination, and electron microanalyser scans, prove…
The Scoria at Chan Chan; Non-Metallurgical Deposits
Further Notes on the Shaft-Hole Pick-Axe from Khurāb, Makrān
The Production of Copper–Arsenic Alloys (Arsenic Bronze) by Cosmelting
Andean Value Systems and the Development of Prehistoric Metallurgy
The rich development of metallurgical technology that arose and was sustained in the New World prior to the Spanish invasion in the 16th century took place in the Andean zone of western South America in that area which is today Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Although Andean peoples supported a highly sophisticated metallurgical tradition with the production of a broad range of metals and metal alloys, little interest or attention has been …
Arsenic Bronze
This article is dedicated to Ronald F. TylecoteArchaeologists and historians of metallurgy have attempted to explain the gradual abandonment of arsenic bronze in favor of tin bronze in the ancient Old world by making comparisons between the mechanical properties of the two bronzes. These comparisons purport to show the superiority of copper-tin alloys over alloys of copper and arsenic, despite an absence of data on the physical properties of the …
A Metallurgical Site Survey in the Peruvian Andes
To help document and interpret the development of pre-Columbian metallurgy prior to the Spanish invasion of the Andes, the author conducted a survey of portions of northern and southern Peru to identify and describe early metallurgical sites including mines, ore-processing areas, smelting installations. Several of the more interesting sites are discussed in detail. Coastal and highland sources of copper ores were identified, particularly along th…
The Production of Copper-arsenic Alloys in the Central Andes
The alloy of copper and arsenic was one of the most common metallurgical products in the central Andean area during the Late Intermediate Period (A.C. 900–1476), and a large part of that production took place at smelting sites on the north coast of what is today Peru. The research of the Battán Grande-La Leche Archaeological Project has made available for the first time a rich body of data on the smelting/refining furnaces used to win copper-arse…
New Perspectives on Moche Metallurgy
The metal objects found in 1969 at the north Peruvian site of Loma Negra, in the region of Cerro Vicús, form one of the largest and most important single groups of Moche metal artifacts known. Since the objects were looted from burials at the site, they are without context, seriously compounding the problems of their relative chronology within the Moche sequence and of their relations with Moche material from the coast farther to the south. Metal…
Andean Ores, Bronze Artifacts, and Lead Isotopes
El palacio, la plaza y la fiesta en el imperio Inca
Este libro reúne diez de los más significativos ensayos de Craig Morris (1939-2006), eminente arquéologo especialista de la civilización inca. Sus excavaciones e investigaciones interdisciplinarias en los asentamientos administrativos incas de Huánuco Pampa, La Centinela y Tambo Colorado le permitieron adquirir un profundo conocimiento de la naturaleza de la infraestrucutra estatal en la periferia del Tahuantinsuyu y de los mecanismos políticos, …
Procesamiento De Metales Durante El Horizonte Medio en El Altiplano Surandino (Escaramayu, Pulacayo, Potosí, Bolivia)
En este trabajo se presentan y se analizan los resultados alcanzados en el sector metalúrgico del sitio Pulac 050 (Escaramayu, Pulacayo, Bolivia). Los estudios desarrollados en el sector han puesto en evidencia un complejo de cuatro hornos metalúrgicos, los cuales se encuentran espacialmente asociados con un conjunto de recintos fechados en el Horizonte Medio. Restos de varios materiales incluyendo escorias, metales y minerales fueron encontrados…
The Escaramayu Complex
Archaeological research carried out in the altiplano locale of Escaramayu (in the community of Escara, Potosí, Bolivia), revealed a prehispanic metallurgical establishment (ninth to fifteenth centuries AD) for the extractive processing of copper ores and, to a lesser extent, lead-silver ore exploited at the nearby Pulacayo mine. The number and variety of metallurgical equipment identified in this establishment for smelting metallic ore and for re…
La metalurgia del bronce en los Andes Sur Centrales
This study is part of a larger investigation into the development of bronze metallurgy in the central and southcentral Andes during the Middle Horizon. It focuses on the kinds of bronze alloy produced and disseminated throughout the region that lies roughly between Tiwanaku and San Pedro de Atacama. Lead isotope analysis of bronze artifacts excavated at these two places and of a wide range of metallic ores sampled from deposits in Bolivia and Nor…
The Scoria at Chan Chan; Non-Metallurgical Deposits
Further Notes on the Shaft-Hole Pick-Axe from Khurāb, Makrān
The Scoria at Chan Chan; Non-Metallurgical Deposits
A Tumbaga Object from the High Andes of Venezuela
A small, gilt tumbaga object was excavated by Erika Wagner at the habitation site of La Era Nueva, near the town of Mucuchíes, in the Venezuelan Andes during her 1967-68 field expedition. This object is the only Precolumbian metal artifact excavated in the Mucuchíes region and one of the few ever found in Venezuela. A complete study of the object, including wet chemical analysis, metallographic examination, and electron microanalyser scans, prove…
A Metallurgical Site Survey in the Peruvian Andes
To help document and interpret the development of pre-Columbian metallurgy prior to the Spanish invasion of the Andes, the author conducted a survey of portions of northern and southern Peru to identify and describe early metallurgical sites including mines, ore-processing areas, smelting installations. Several of the more interesting sites are discussed in detail. Coastal and highland sources of copper ores were identified, particularly along th…
News and Short Contributions
New and Short Contributions
Joseph W. Shaw, M. J. Becker, James B. Griffin, Richard I. Ford, Bruce D. Smith, James Schoenwetter, William R. Farrand, Frederick R. Matson, Robert Stuckenrath, Heather Lechtman, Garman Harbottle, Edward V. Sayre, Bernard Wailes, New and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 124-134
Material Culture
New Perspectives on Moche Metallurgy
The metal objects found in 1969 at the north Peruvian site of Loma Negra, in the region of Cerro Vicús, form one of the largest and most important single groups of Moche metal artifacts known. Since the objects were looted from burials at the site, they are without context, seriously compounding the problems of their relative chronology within the Moche sequence and of their relations with Moche material from the coast farther to the south. Metal…
Andean Value Systems and the Development of Prehistoric Metallurgy
The rich development of metallurgical technology that arose and was sustained in the New World prior to the Spanish invasion in the 16th century took place in the Andean zone of western South America in that area which is today Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Although Andean peoples supported a highly sophisticated metallurgical tradition with the production of a broad range of metals and metal alloys, little interest or attention has been …
Red Gold of Africa
Red, Gold of Africa
Book Reviews Red, Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture. By Eugenia W. Herbert. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp. xxiii+413; illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliogra phy, index. $32.50. This is a splendid book. There has been nothing like it since Wal ter Cline’s classic 1937 work, Mining and Metallurgy in Negro Africa, which Eugenia Herbert’s Red Gold of Africa neither supplants nor complements. They ar…
The Production of Copper-arsenic Alloys in the Central Andes
The alloy of copper and arsenic was one of the most common metallurgical products in the central Andean area during the Late Intermediate Period (A.C. 900–1476), and a large part of that production took place at smelting sites on the north coast of what is today Peru. The research of the Battán Grande-La Leche Archaeological Project has made available for the first time a rich body of data on the smelting/refining furnaces used to win copper-arse…
Axe-Monies and Their Relatives
Arsenic Bronze
This article is dedicated to Ronald F. TylecoteArchaeologists and historians of metallurgy have attempted to explain the gradual abandonment of arsenic bronze in favor of tin bronze in the ancient Old world by making comparisons between the mechanical properties of the two bronzes. These comparisons purport to show the superiority of copper-tin alloys over alloys of copper and arsenic, despite an absence of data on the physical properties of the …
The Production of Copper–Arsenic Alloys (Arsenic Bronze) by Cosmelting
La metalurgia del bronce en los Andes Sur Centrales
This study is part of a larger investigation into the development of bronze metallurgy in the central and southcentral Andes during the Middle Horizon. It focuses on the kinds of bronze alloy produced and disseminated throughout the region that lies roughly between Tiwanaku and San Pedro de Atacama. Lead isotope analysis of bronze artifacts excavated at these two places and of a wide range of metallic ores sampled from deposits in Bolivia and Nor…
Procesamiento De Metales Durante El Horizonte Medio en El Altiplano Surandino (Escaramayu, Pulacayo, Potosí, Bolivia)
En este trabajo se presentan y se analizan los resultados alcanzados en el sector metalúrgico del sitio Pulac 050 (Escaramayu, Pulacayo, Bolivia). Los estudios desarrollados en el sector han puesto en evidencia un complejo de cuatro hornos metalúrgicos, los cuales se encuentran espacialmente asociados con un conjunto de recintos fechados en el Horizonte Medio. Restos de varios materiales incluyendo escorias, metales y minerales fueron encontrados…
Murra at Mit
(1962). I assign these articles as required reading to undergraduate students in two of the courses I teach at MIT: The Ancient Andean World, and Materials in Human Experience.The students in my classes are primarily engi-neers; others study physics or biology, architecture or economics. Some are from Mexico, and occasion-ally there are a few from the Andes. For the most part, they do not read Spanish.Many years ago I asked Murra if he would tran…
El palacio, la plaza y la fiesta en el imperio Inca
Este libro reúne diez de los más significativos ensayos de Craig Morris (1939-2006), eminente arquéologo especialista de la civilización inca. Sus excavaciones e investigaciones interdisciplinarias en los asentamientos administrativos incas de Huánuco Pampa, La Centinela y Tambo Colorado le permitieron adquirir un profundo conocimiento de la naturaleza de la infraestrucutra estatal en la periferia del Tahuantinsuyu y de los mecanismos políticos, …
Andean Ores, Bronze Artifacts, and Lead Isotopes
The Escaramayu Complex
Archaeological research carried out in the altiplano locale of Escaramayu (in the community of Escara, Potosí, Bolivia), revealed a prehispanic metallurgical establishment (ninth to fifteenth centuries AD) for the extractive processing of copper ores and, to a lesser extent, lead-silver ore exploited at the nearby Pulacayo mine. The number and variety of metallurgical equipment identified in this establishment for smelting metallic ore and for re…
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