Técnicas de manufactura en la escultura portátil Olmeca en la región de la Costa del Golfo en el periodo formativo

The Olmec portable sculpture encompasses figurines, votive axes, masks, pectorals and scepters. Along with other ornaments, such as beads and earspools, the Olmec crafted them mainly in serpentine; however, they also used jadeite. Many of these pieces reached collections inside and outside Mexico wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Medina, Henri Bernard
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
Repositorio:Revista Clio Arqueológica (Online)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.periodicos.ufpe.br:article/248780
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/clioarqueologica/article/view/248780
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Olmeca
tecnología
lapidaria
Olmec
technology
lapidary
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Sumario:The Olmec portable sculpture encompasses figurines, votive axes, masks, pectorals and scepters. Along with other ornaments, such as beads and earspools, the Olmec crafted them mainly in serpentine; however, they also used jadeite. Many of these pieces reached collections inside and outside Mexico without an accurate context of provenance and often do not have mineralogical analysis to identify the raw materials. In this work, I will present the first manifestations of this type of sculpture found in archaeological contexts within Olmec sites of the Gulf Coast through technological analysis of the manufacturing traces.