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Foreing Produced Shell Objects in the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2012

Adrián Velázquez Castro ,
Belem Zúñiga Arellano  and
José María García Guerrero
Adrián Velázquez Castro
Affiliation:
Museo del Templo Mayor, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, INAH. Seminario No. 8, Centro Histórico, Mexico DF 06060, Mexico. e-mail: adrianveca62@gmail.com
Belem Zúñiga Arellano
Affiliation:
Proyecto Templo Mayor, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, INAH. Seminario No. 8, Centro Histórico, Mexico DF 06060, Mexico.
José María García Guerrero
Affiliation:
Proyecto Templo Mayor, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, INAH. Seminario No. 8, Centro Histórico, Mexico DF 06060, Mexico.
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Abstract

The analyses of work traces in the shell objects found in the offerings of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), has allowed to find an important group of objects made locally in Tenochtitlan. These shell pieces have been found in the constructive stages IVb to VII (1469-1520). Recently, another groups of objects have been found that present different work traces and that seems to be foreign productions. In this paper this new data will be presented and it will be discuss the possible origin of the objects.

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shellsmanufacturearchaeology
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1374: Symposium S8 – Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Issues in Materials Science , 2012 , pp. 89 - 101
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2012

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