Pre-hispanic goldwork technology. The Quimbaya Treasure,Colombia |
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| Authors: | A Perea PC Gutiérrez-Neira A Climent-Font P Fernández-Esquivel S Rovira-Llorens JL Ruvalcaba-Sil A Verde A Zucchiatti |
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| Institution: | 1. Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC, Albasanz 26-28, 28037 Madrid, Spain;2. Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales, UAM, Faraday 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain;3. Dpto. Física Aplicada C-12, UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain;4. Fundación Museos Banco Central de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica;5. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Serrano 13, 28006 Madrid, Spain;6. Instituto de Física, UNAM, Mexico DF, Mexico;g Museo de América, Avda. de los Reyes Católicos 6, 28040 Madrid, Spain |
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| Abstract: | One of the most important pre-Columbian gold assemblages made up of more than one hundred objects from two tombs in the Cauca river valley, Colombia, was studied to obtain archaeometric information. Although several attempts have been made to arrange gold production in time and space from the stylistic point of view, no firm conclusions were possible due to the lack of archaeological contexts. This paper presents first results of a new, fully instrumental approach, in which different analytical techniques, including OM, SEM-EDS, XRF, PIXE, RBS, AMS and X-ray imaging, were applied in order to determine a technological, metallurgical and chronological frame of the so-called Quimbaya Treasure. |
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| Keywords: | Gold Archaeometry Colombia Archaeometallurgy Technology |
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