| Autor: |
FALCT, CATARINA GUZZO, ANTCZAK, MARIA MAGDALENA, ANTCZAK, ANDRZEJ T., VAN GIJN, ANNELOU |
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Baessler-Archiv. 2017, Vol. 64, p87-112. 26p. |
| Abstrakt: |
Large collections of beads, pendants and other bodily ornaments have been recovered from pre-Colonial contexts on the shores of the Lake Valencia in north-central Venezuela. Most excavations took place in the early and mid-part of the 20th century, but the ornaments have not been thoroughly studied to date. These artefacts were produced by the bearers of the Valencioid culture (AD 900-1500) and are currently held in several public and private collections dispersed throughout the world. This paper aims to recontextualize shell, lithic, and clay ornaments from the Alfredo Jahn collection, housed in the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin. Production and use wear traces were investigated through microwear analysis and were combined with data concerning raw material acquisition strategies and depositional contexts. By combining these results with new, unpublished data provided by Jahn's excavation report from 1901 and with up-to-date Valencioid archaeology, we were able to recontextualize an indigenous tradition that encompassed ways of producing, decorating, and dealing with bodily ornaments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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