Metallurgy in Ancient Ecuador : : A Study of the Collection of Archaeological Metallurgy of the Ministry of Culture, Ecuador.
This study aims to collect and systematise the existing general knowledge about pre-Hispanic metallurgy of Ecuador and the specific data concerning the collection of the Banco Central. The result is the most comprehensive book on Ecuadorian metallurgy to date.
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Superior document: | Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology ; v.5 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2015. ©2015. |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Resumen en español
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The collection of the Ministry of Culture
- Figure 1 Museo Nacional del Ecuador in Quito, house of the collection of pre-Hispanic archaeological metal objects
- Figure 2 Provenances of metallic objects of the collection of the Ministry of Culture of Ecuador
- Previous studies on the pre-Hispanic metallurgy of Ecuador
- Figure 3 Olaf Holm, one of the pioneers of the study of metal artefacts in Ecuador
- Metallogenesis and metal resources in Ecuador
- Figure 4 Chimborazo the highest strato-volcano in Ecuador
- metal deposits are associated to volcanic activity.
- Figure 5 Alluvial river placers like this one in the lowlands of the Pacific coast abound in gold and platinum.
- Early finds and the Initial Period
- Great Regional Groups: La Tolita -Tumaco
- Geographic Distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Typology and classification
- Figure 6 Provenances of La Tolita - Tumaco
- Figure 7 Provenance of La Tolita - Tumaco metal objects in southern Colombia
- Figure 8 La Tolita - Tumaco gold anthropomorphic mask with extensions imitating the rays of the sun: 40 x 60 x 0.3 cms.
- Figure 9 La Tolita - Tumaco gold and platinum zoomorphic mask: 7.5 x 5.5 x 4 cms.
- Figure 10 La Tolita - Tumaco gold and platinum with sodalite inlays anthropomorphic mask: 9.6 x 9 x 5.6 cms.
- Figures 11 and 12 La Tolita - Tumaco gold ear pendants: 16 x 4.6 x 1.2 and 16.2 x 4 x 1.2 cms.
- Figure 13 La Tolita - Tumaco gold and platinum zoomorphic mask, two components: 4.7 x 8.1 x 0.3 and 5.3 x 7.7 x 2.6 cms.
- Figure 14 La Tolita - Tumaco gold and platinum anthropomorphic mask: 19.8 x 19.8 x 9.6 cms.
- Figure 15 La Tolita - Tumaco gold crest for diadem: 22.3 x 32 x 0.2 cms.
- Figure 16 La Tolita - Tumaco gold necklace: 1.9 x 78 x 0.1 cms.
- Figure 17 La Tolita - Tumaco gold zoomorphic figure: 4.4 x 4.2 x 21.7 cms.
- Figure 18 La Tolita - Tumaco copper axe: 11 x 7 x 2.5 cms.
- Great Regional Groups: Jama - Coaque
- Geographical distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Typology and classification
- Figure 19 Provenances of Jama - Coaque metal objects
- Figure 20 Jama - Coaque gold pendants: 9 x 7 x 6
- 13 x 7.5 x 4 and 12.8 x 7.9 x 4.4 cms.
- Figure 21 Jama - Coaque gold bowl: 3.4 x 12 cms.
- Figures 22 and 23 Jama - Coaque gold ear pendants:
- Figure 24 Jama - Coaque gold breastplate with zoomorphic figure:
- Great Regional Groups: Bahia
- Geographic distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Figure 25 Provenance of Bahia metal objects
- Figure 26 Bahia silver votive figure shaped as a raft: 6.8 x 10 x 19 cms.
- Figure 27 Bahia gold snail cover: 9.5 x 10.2 x 21.2 cms.
- Figure 28 Bahia silver chest guard: 8.7 x 17.4 x 0.3 cms.
- Figure 29 Bahia gold pair of ear pendants: 12.8 x 3.4 x 3.3 and 12.6 x 3.7 x 3 cms.
- Great Regional Groups: Milagro - Quevedo
- Geographic Distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Typology and classification
- Figure 30 Provenance of Milagro - Manatňo
- Figure 31 Milagro - Quevedo copper crucible: 3.2 x 12 x 12 cms.
- Figure 32 Milagro - Quevedo copper mould: 1.2 x 7.7 x 17.1 cms.
- Figure 33 Milagro - Quevedo copper staff: 30 x 11.1 x 2.8 cms.
- Figure 34 Milagro - Quevedo copper axe-monies: 10.5 x 10 x 0.5
- 9.2 x 8.3 x 05 and 10.9 x 10 x 0.5 cms.
- Figure 35 Milagro - Quevedo gold nose ornament: 4 x 5.6 x 0.4 cms.
- Figure 36 Milagro - Quevedo gold spiral nose ornament: 2.6 x 1.4 x 0.1 cms.
- Great Regional Groups: Manteño - Huancavilca
- Geographic Distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Typology and classification.
- Figure 36 provenances for Manteño - Huancavilca metal objects
- Figure 38 Manteño - Huancavilca silver and copper mask with crown: 30.5 x 18.3 x 15.3 cms.
- Figure 39 Manteño - Huancavilca silver and copper mask with crown:
- Figure 40 Manteño - Huancavilca silver breastplate: 23.3 x 23 x 0.9 cms.
- Figure 41 Manteño - Huancavilca silver plaque: 13 x 31 x 0.1 cms.
- Figure 42 Manteño - Huancavilca copper axe: 14 x 16.3 x 0.6 cms.
- Figure 43 Manteño - Huancavilca copper breastplate, tinculpa style:
- Great Regional Groups: Puruha
- Geographic Distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Typology and classification
- Figure 44 Provenance of Puruha metal objects
- Figure 45 - Puruha gold spear throwers: 45 x 1.4
- 46 x 1.4 and 45 x 1.8 cms.
- Figure 46 - Puruha giant copper tupo: 45.8 x 13.5 x 1 cms.
- Figure 47 - Puruha copper crown: 21 x 16.3 cms.
- Figures 48 and 49 - Puruha gold ear pendants with zoomorphic figures: 7.2 x 6.5 x 2.9 and 6.7 x 6.7 x w2.9 cms.
- Figures 50 and 51 - Puruha gold and silver ear pendants:
- Figure 52 - Puruha gold and silver nose ornament: 5.1 x 5.8 x 0.2 cms.
- Figure 53 - Puruha gold anthropomorphic pendant: 4.2 x 4 x 1 cms.
- Great Regional Groups: Cañari
- Geographic Distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Typology and classification
- Figure 54 Povenance of Cañari metal objects
- Figure 55 - Cañari gold diadem: 6.9 x 9.7 x 1.3 cms.
- Figure 56 - Cañari gold with Spondylus inlays ear pendant lid: 6.3 x 1 cms.
- Figure 57 - Cañari gold ear pendant lid: 8.8 x 0.3 cms.
- Figure 58 - Cañari gold pendant with anthropomorphic figures: 7.4 x 6.9 x 0.4 cms.
- Great Regional Groups: Carchi - Nariño
- Geographic Distribution
- Chronology
- Technology
- Typology and classification
- Figure 59 Provenenace of Carchi - Nariño metal objects.
- Figure 60 Figure 59 Provenenace of Carchi - Nariño metal objects in southern Colombia
- Figure 61 - Carchi - Nariño gold mask: 14.6 x 9.4 x 1.8 cms.
- Figure 62 - Carchi - Nariño tombac ear pendants, tinculpa style:
- Figure 63 - Carchi - Nariño gold ear pendants with zoomorphic figures:
- Figure 64 Carchi - Nariño tombac nose ornament: 6.5 x 16 x 0.5 cms.
- Figure 65 Carchi - Nariño tombac necklace: 11 x 5 x 0.5 cms.
- Figure 66 Carchi - Nariño gold pendant shaped as a bird: 13.3 x 16.8 x 0.5 cms.
- Figure 67 Carchi - Nariño gold pendant shaped as a bird: 13.2 x 11.4 x 1.8 cms.
- Figure 68 Carchi - Nariño tombac breastplate: 24.5 x 28 x 0.8 cms.
- Isolated finds and problematic Groups
- The Coast
- The Sierra
- Discussion
- Figure 69 Provenance of metal objects with no cultural attribution
- The Inca metallurgical integration
- Geographic Distribution
- Technology
- Typology and classification
- Figure 70 - Provenance of Inca metal objects
- Figure 71 Inca silver ceremonial vase (kero): 17.8 x 16.7 cms.
- Figure 72 Inca silver arivaloid bottle: 39 x 29 cms.
- Figure 73 Inca gold and silver votive figures: 2.9 x 1 x 1 and 2.9 x 1 x 1 cms.
- Figure 74 Inca gold tupo: 13.5 x 1.6 x 3 cms.
- Figure 75 Inca bronze axe: 8.4 x 8.2 x 0.3 cms.
- Figure 76 Inca bronze head breaker: 2.6 x 9.4 x 1.5 cms.
- Iconography and symbolism in metallurgy
- Synthesis
- An interpretative proposal for the development of metallurgy in Ecuador
- References.