En diferentes sitios de Mesoamérica fuera del área maya se han recuperado objetos lapidarios de piedra verde de tonalidades brillantes y lustre vítreo, muchos de ellos con decoración o iconografía ...maya, por lo cual se les han identificado a priori como jadeítas y se atribuye su elaboración a artesanos mayas o que ya vienen manufacturados desde aquella región. Sin embargo, son escasos los análisis detallados que evalúen y confirmen estas propuestas. Por ello, en este estudio mostraremos los análisis tecnológicos aplicados a 243 objetos lapidarios con estas características hallados en Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Teteles de Santo Nombre, Tula, Tamtoc y el Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan. De esta manera, se identificó un patrón muy estandarizado que comparte la tecnología artesanal lapidaria maya de las Tierras Bajas. Además, su origen foráneo y distribución restringida hizo que otros grupos mesoamericanos los consideraran bienes de prestigio, emblemas de poder y dones sagrados.
Figure de l’effervescence encyclopédique du xiiie siècle, Barthélémy l’Anglais, savant franciscain, rédige son De proprietatibus rerum dans les années 1230-1240 et constitue ainsi une véritable somme ...de connaissances théologiques, philosophiques, scientifiques et médicales, réunies en dix-neuf livres selon le principe de l’ordo rerum allant de la figure divine à diverses concepts intellectuels humains, en passant par les astres, la matière, etc. Cette encyclopédie en langue latine connut un i...
In the context of genology. Julia Hartwig’s individual genre The article relates to three collections of poetry written by Julia Hartwig entitled Błyski, Zwierzenia i błyski, Trzecie błyski. Those ...miniature notes form a collection of omnidirectional traces and signs, characterized by its structural and thematic heterogeneity. Poetics notes contained in discusses volumes execute atypical literary form which is lapidaries. Hartwig while creating further poems, she heads a for authorial poetics, she generates entirely individual genre. Błyski also come in various analogic relations with Hartwig’s another poems placed in different poetry volumes. It proclaims the repeatability of topics, motives and structures in Hartwig’s writings, even the rewriting of her own lines and verses.
Lapidary artifacts show an impressive abundance and diversity during the Ceramic period in the Caribbean islands, especially at the beginning of this period. Most of the raw materials used in this ...production do not exist naturally on the islands of the Lesser Antilles, nevertheless, many archaeological sites have yielded such artifacts on these islands. In the framework of a four-years-long project, we created a database by combining first hand observations and analysis, as well as a thorough literature survey. The result is a database including more than 100 sites and almost 5000 beads, pendants, blanks and raw material fragments.
Este artículo se enfoca en los aspectos tecnológicos de los colgantes hachaoides de piedras verdes en la Costa Rica precolombina. La autora menciona el procedimiento de producción y presenta huellas ...de manufactura de dichos colgantes, esto se permite observar con el microscopio digital (Keyence VHX-5000). Además, los experimentos de producción de este estudio prueban algunas técnicas lapidarias hipotetizadas. En este estudio se deduce la existencia de variaciones en tecnología de tallar; además, al parecer, cada técnica artesanal requiere niveles de dificultad diferentes. Aunque todos los colgantes hachaoide se han categorizados bajo la misma comprensión -objetos de prestigio o símbolo de estatus-, debe haber distintas dueñas, grupos de artesanos, valores sociales, y significados sociales. Toda la información anterior complementaría sugiere la participación de artesanos con varias procedencias sociales.
Use-wear analysis applied to two carnelian beads from Nahal Hemar Cave, southern Israel, and dated to the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, revealed a manufacturing procedure that corresponds to ...genuine lapidary technologies of contemporary traditional societies. Based on ethnographic observations combined with experiments in working carnelian, wear patterns were interpreted to be produced by a multi-stage manufacturing sequence that includes abrasion against varying abrasion surfaces, drilling probably with a splinter drill equipped into a rod and finally, tumbling. These beads are one of the earliest examples of carnelian beads and thus represent a lapidary technology with roots from over 9000 years ago.
•Use-wear analysis is introduced as a systematic method to investigate stone beads.•Use-wear analysis was applied to two carnelian beads from the MPPNB Nahal Hemar Cave.•Microscopic wear traces indicate multi-stage manufacturing procedure.•Several abrasion surfaces, drilling with a splinter drill and tumbling were inferred.•Manufacturing procedure resembles lapidary craft used by modern traditional bead makers.
In Italy, in the academic field, there are many cases of collaboration between the University and various institutions protecting Cultural Heritage. It is made possible due to the large amount of ...archaeological heritage requiring restoration interventions and thanks to the need from students to put their skills into practice. This is the case of the partnership between the Archaeological Superintendence of Emilia Romagna and the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna (Italy) established in 2012. This collaboration has permitted to open an important restoration site in order to recover the Lapidary located in the courtyard of the historical Palazzo Ancarano. The restoration project was developed over a period of three years, plus an additional year to reorganize the exhibition path. The maintenance of an archaeological find was assigned to each student with the purpose of producing a thorough and complete documentation on the intervention made, necessary to leave a proof of the methods and materials used. A targeted work on every archaeological find present in the court, having an aim to arrange them around the perimeter of it in chronological order based on historical era. At the conclusion of the restoration and reorganization of the area, it is now necessary to add value in particular to the stele collection: pre-Roman, Roman and Medieval. This objective will be reached by opening the courtyard of the Palazzo Ancarano to the public, to bring again its original function, that is, a museum. To reach this purpose, we propose to use appropriate digital technologies associated with the archaeological items on display to improve the understanding of the collection by a wide variety of visitors, we intend to provide an instrument presenting information of various levels of detail and thoroughness enabling each visitor to deepen their knowledge according to their own interest.
This article presents our documentation of a previously unidentified subterranean complex located near Amatsya, Israel. The study revolves primarily around an examination of the architecture, ...decorations, and letters carved on the walls of an underground rock-cut hall. The layout of the hall bears a striking resemblance to sacred architecture prevalent in the region since the Middle Bronze Age, while its decorative elements are linked to earlier artistic traditions dating back to the Iron Age, as well as the aniconic characteristics found in Idumean, Canaanite, Phoenician and Nabatean art of the Persian and Hellenistic periods. According to paleographic analysis, the Aramaic lapidary inscriptions, which possibly mention two deities, El and Adon, are tentatively dated to the 5th-4th centuries BCE. Our main thesis is that this hall functioned as a private shrine, possibly a funerary shrine adjacent to a rock-cut burial complex. We propose that both the shrine and the adjacent tomb were utilized by an Idumean landowner, showcasing influences from Phoenician / Canaanite iconographic traditions. Consequently, the site assumes significant importance, as it offers novel insights into the field of study by presenting, for the first time, a relatively well-preserved underground Idumean shrine from the Persian and Hellenistic periods. These finds contribute to a deeper understanding of the religious and cultural practices of the Idumeans during that specific era.
This article details a correction to: Queffelec, A., Fouéré, P. and Caverne, J.-B., 2021. A Database of Lapidary Artifacts in the Caribbean for the Ceramic Age. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 9, ...p.2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.74
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