Maya Metallurgical Technology in Late Postclassic-Spanish …
Recent archaeometallurgical studies at the ancient Maya site of Lamanai, Belize have begun to reveal the nature of copper metallurgy in the centuries just prior to and during Spanish contact in the Southern Maya Lowland Area. More copper artifacts have been recovered from controlled archaeological excavations at Lamanai than at any other site ...
Ancient Metallurgy in Mesoamerica: Local Expression and …
Investigations at the southern Maya Lowland sites of Lamanai and Tipu, Belize have yielded diverse assemblages of metal artifacts. These metals are from the Postclassic and Colonial (12th to 17th century) occupations at Lamanai and Colonial (mid-16th to …
5 Important Artifacts From Ancient Maya Civilization
2023年5月26日 · We know the ancient Egyptians partly through the Bust of Nefertiti and the Rosetta Stone. We know the Anglo-Saxons partly through the helmet and treasure left at Sutton Hoo. But what are some of the most significant treasures from the ancient Maya civilization?
The first metal objects produced in Mesoamerica are found at archaeolog - ical sites located in the West Mexican states of Michoacán, Guerrero, Jalisco, Colima, and Nayarit.
METALLURGY, MAYAPAN, AND THE POSTCLASSIC …
Residents of Mayapan produced and consumed metal artifacts through long-distance commercial exchange networks in the Postclassic Mesoamerican world system. In this paper, I perform a stylistic and typological analysis of metal artifacts and debris from lost-wax casting from recent excavations at Mayapan, with reference to previously excavated ...
(PDF) Maya Metallurgical Technology in Late Postclassic …
This paper presents the results of recently conducted analyses that address this second goal of understanding metallurgical technologies used by the ancient Maya. Several of the copper artifact types and the technologies used to create them have not …
(PDF) Maya Metallurgical Technology in Late Postclassic …
2013年5月1日 · Recent archaeometallurgical studies at the ancient Maya site of Lamanai, Belize have begun to reveal the nature of copper metallurgy in the centuries just prior to and during Spanish contact in...
understanding of the roles metal played in the lives of the ancient Maya. After offering a brief overview of Maya metallurgy, we will discuss the types of metal artifacts that have been recovered at Tipu and Lamanai, Belize. We also examine the objects’ archae-ological and chronological contexts, and offer some thoughts onthe
RECYCLING AND RECONFIGURING: METALWORK OF MAYA …
Analysis of the two largest southern Maya lowland metal assemblages, from Lamanai (n = 187) and Tipu (n = 99), Belize reveals that Mesoamerican and European technologies were negotiated through the processes of recycling objects to create new forms and juxtaposing objects of different provenances for bodily ornamentation.
(PDF) Metal Artifacts' Socioeconomic Role in Mayapán Society
Plain-walled bells, as well as more elaborately crafted ones, were perhaps the most ubiquitous metal artifacts produced in ancient Mesoamerica (Figure 1.4). Only copper axes—used throughout Mesoamerica for cutting purposes and in certain areas, such as West Mexico, as money (Hosler 2003; Hosler, Lechtman, and Olaf Holm 1990)—may have been ...