The Use-Life of Spanish Colonial Metal Artifacts from Carnué, New Mexico
Author(s): Tanner Guskey; Kelly Jenks
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The acquisition of metal tools on the Spanish Colonial frontier of New Mexico was a rare occurrence, but it is an activity we may be able to better understand through analysis of their production, modification, and utilization as well as sourcing their elemental makeup through XRF. Metals of various types were utilized by settlers for agriculture, cooking, medical treatment, mining, religious practices, tailoring, trade, woodworking, and similar activities. Using XRF to identify either their mining or production source would enable us to more accurately depict the trade networks of Colonial New Spain. The late Spanish Colonial site of San Miguel de Carnué offers an opportunity to test the metal artifacts recovered in two excavations conducted in 1946 and 2022 to identify and formulate the likely routes of trade and production techniques that the raw metal or their products took to arrive at the settlement.
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The Use-Life of Spanish Colonial Metal Artifacts from Carnué, New Mexico. Tanner Guskey, Kelly Jenks. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499443)
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min long: -123.97; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -92.549; max lat: 37.996 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 38711.0