Prehispanic and Colonial Technology Transition in Metallurgy Gold Work in Oaxaca: A Comparative Study

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Technological Transitions in Prehispanic and Colonial Metallurgy: Recent and Ongoing Research at the Archaeological Site of Jicalán Viejo, in Central Michoacán, West Mexico" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the northern Sierra of Oaxaca, it has been demonstrated that gold-copper-silver alloys were widely used between different prehispanic groups (Zapotecs and Chinantec). Nevertheless, with the conquest of the Sierra, new metallurgy and technological works arrived with the Spaniards and were adopted secretly by the Indians to create objects to offer in burials or pagan ceremonies. The goal of this presentation is to present recent archaeological, historical, and analytical investigations accomplished in the Zapotec and Chinantec areas in the past years, and to compare how access to raw material and metallurgy work was different in Oaxaca and Michoacán during the sixteenth century.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Technological Transitions in Prehispanic and Colonial Metallurgy: Recent and Ongoing Research at the Archaeological Site of Jicalán Viejo, in Central Michoacán, West Mexico   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37546.0