Lapidary Objects from a Funerary Context: The Origin to the Last Abode

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Within of the daily activities of a population, there were the events of the death of community members. These practices led the population to look for certain objects that needed to be placed next to the deceased people in the burial process with different functions and meanings. But what is the life story of these items? Was the raw material local or foreign? Did the villagers make the ornaments by themselves, or did they get them already manufactured? Questions like these have been our starting point for the application of archaeometric techniques that have allowed us to know the origin of the resources and the forms of production that were used for the elaboration of these artifacts. Our case of study focuses on a sample of lapidary ornaments from the Zacatenco site located in the Basin of Mexico. We have applied analyses such as X-ray energy dispersion spectroscopy and traceology, and the results have helped us to review the proposals that exist about the interaction networks that were developed during the Formative period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38687.0