Axe-Monies in the Smithsonian Collections

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Coastal Connections: Pacific Coastal Links from Mexico to Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A technical study of pre-Columbian copper-alloy axe-monies from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History. Research activities include stereo microscopy, digital photography (macro and micro), portable X-ray fluroescence (pXRF) spectroscopy, and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI).

Cite this Record

Axe-Monies in the Smithsonian Collections. Kim Cullen Cobb, Emily Kaplan, Michele Austin Dennehy, Christopher Beekman. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450551)

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 24775