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AUTHOR
Rodrigo Villalobos García
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El hacha de jadeíta de Portela do Outeiro (Sertã, Castelo Branco, Portugal)
2015
Este artículo trata sobre el análisis arqueométrico de un hacha de jadeíta depositada en el Museo do Clube da Sertã, en la villa de Sertã (distrito de Castelo Branco, Portugal). De igual forma que sucede en otros museos creados en el s. XIX y comienzos del s. XX, éste incorpora materiales arqueológicos aislados y con escasas referencias al contexto de origen. El hacha en cuestión tan sólo cuenta con una fcha de inventario manuscrita en la que aparece la siguiente descripción (fg. 1): Pedra exótica, encontrada // juntamente com outros numa // escavação junto da Portela do // Outeiro. Caracteriza-se pela sua for-//ma oval e natureza geolo-// gica, inteiramente estranha // à região. C. Ramalho…
Personal body ornamentation on the Southern Iberian Meseta: An archaeomineralogical study
2016
Beads and pendants from the Castillejo del Bonete (Terrinches, Ciudad Real) and Cerro Ortega (Villanueva de la Fuente, Ciudad Real) burials were analysed using XRD, micro-Raman and XRF in order to contribute to the current distribution map of green bead body ornament pieces on the Iberian Peninsula which, so far, remain undetailed for many regions. XRD, micro-Raman and XRF analyses showed that most of the beads from Castillejo del Bonete (Late 3rd millennium cal. BC) were made from variscite or green phyllosilicates, while Cerro Ortega's (Late 4th millennium cal. BC) beads were made out of fossil wood or Clinochlore. Significantly enough, while XRD pointed to variscite as the main crystallo…