Copper Pigment-Making in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile)

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ID4374328
AuthorsSepúlveda R Marcela, Figueroa L Valentina, Sandrine Pagès-Camagna, Sandrine Pagès‐camagna
Year2013
Volume24
Issue4
Pages467-482
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7183/1045-6635.24.4.467
OpenAlexW2315044719
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited17

Results of physico-chemical analysis of samples of rock paintings and blue and green pigments from the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) allow us to incorporate a new technology, pigment production, to processes of mining and copper production, which until now have been related only to lapidary and metal working. Archaeological contexts associated with paints and pigments, as well as information available from historical times, allow us to suggest hypotheses about their importance in sharing networks of late prehispanic times (A.D. 900-1550) and after Spanish contact. In these times, the production and circulation of pigments would have closely connected the Upper Loa region to the Lípez region in south-western Bolivia and other regions of the Atacama Desert

Archaeology · Art · Desert (philosophy · Geography · Pigment · Visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Building materials and conservation · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

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