Proyectiles de plomo en el antiguo Perú
| Autor: | William E. Brooks, Armando Farfán, Luisa Vetter Parodi, David Diestra Lopez |
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| Jazyk: | Spanish; Castilian<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, Vol 42, Pp 13-23 (2013) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0303-7495 2076-5827 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/bifea.820 |
| Popis: | Ancient stone sling ammunition found at several archaeological sites in Peru indicates that the Ancient stone sling ammunition found at several archaeological sites in Peru. In ancient Peru, as in the Old World, argentiferous galena (soroche) was smelted to provide silver and in a distinctly different process, lead was smelted from galena for other uses. Because of its ease of smelting, casting, and weight, lead would have provided sling ammunition with consistent form and mass, and therefore, improved and consistent accuracy. Several pre-contact lead artifacts from ancient Peru have been described as bars or weights ; however, alternatively, these artifacts might also be more accurately described as biconic to ovoid (30-60 mm, 30-40 g) and spherical (35 mm, 80-160 g). In weight, form and dimensions, and composition, these ancient Peruvian lead artifacts are strikingly similar to ancient lead sling projectiles from ancient battle sites in Europe and are herein interpreted to have served a similar function. |
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