A Lead Lip Plug from Western Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2563299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Earle R Caley (The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Dudley T Easby (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 497-500 |
| Publication date | 1964-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/277992 |
| OpenAlex | W2319234704 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
A corroded white-metal lip plug from Guerrero was shown by wet-chemical and spectrographic analyses to have originally contained over 99% lead. After reviewing 16th-century eyewitness accounts, linguistic evidence, the mineral resources of Mexico, the technological problems involved in the primitive extraction of lead from its most common ore, galena (PbS), and the few early lead artifacts reported from Mexico, the authors state their opinion that the smelting of lead ore and use of metallic lead were known before the arrival of the Spaniards and that there is no valid reason to doubt that this object was made before the Conquest
Ancient history · Archaeology · CONQUEST · Galena · Geochemistry · Geography · Lead (geology) · Lead smelting · Metallurgy · Mining engineering · Smelting · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis · Geology · History · Materials Science · Paleontology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2013 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |