Mercury (Other Keyword)
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Project metadata for resources within the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.
Cosmology in the New World
This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.
Environmental Legacy of Precolumbian Maya Mercury: Using the Present to Understand the Past (2023)
This is an abstract from the "2023 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Timothy Beach Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mexico and Central American region has a history of mercury use that began at least two millennia before European colonization in the sixteenth century. Archaeologists have reported deposits of cinnabar (HgS) and other mercury materials at Classic period (ca. 250–900 CE) Maya settlements across the region;...
Historic American Building Survey of Launch Complex 3 & 4 Northern terminus, Cape Canaveral Air Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida (2003)
This record series contains written, graphic, and photographic material of nine facilities (8BR2234-resource group, 8BR2235, 8BR2236, 8BR2237, 8BR2238, 8BR2239, 8BR2240, 8BR2241, 8BR2242, and 8BR2259) associated with Launch Complex 3 and 4 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Brevard County, Florida. Division of Historical Resources Project File Number 2008-4438.
Historic American Building Survey of Launch Complex 1 & 2 Northern terminus, Cape Canaveral Air Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida (2003)
HAER documentation of the Launch Complexes 1 and 2 and Florida Master Site File forms for all structures located within the complex located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Mercury pollution and the ancient Maya: where, why and how. (2015)
Multi-element inorganic geochemical studies across the Maya lowlands have revealed elevated levels of mercury (Hg) in soils and sediments that date mainly from the Classic period (c. 250-900 AD). Mercury pollution has now been recorded at a range of archaeological sites despite the absence of metallurgy until the Postclassic Period (after 1000 AD), or any other industry capable of significant heavy metal pollution of the environment. This paper presents the first detailed analysis of the extent...
The Role of Venus in the Cosmologies of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Southeast (2010)
This paper describes differing but related views of the meanings of Venus in Central Mexico, West Mexico, the U.S. Southwest, and the Eastern Woodlands.