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DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.004
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The allure of rock crystal in Copper Age southern Iberia: Technical skill and distinguished objects from Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain)

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“…Other non-local raw materials are the rock crystal micro-blade, the two milky quartz monocrystals, the perforated muscovite pendant and bead, the chalcedony amulet or the amphibolite hand axe. The few studies available on Copper Age rock crystal technology show that potential sources are far and between (Morgado Rodríguez et al 2016). Regarding fibrolite, no sources exist either in the Western Sierra Morena or in the Iberian southwest, which means that we can reasonably conclude that this stone came from one of the locations suggested in the literature, such as Serranía de Ronda (Málaga) or Hoyazo de Nijar (Almería) (García González 2014: 399).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Other non-local raw materials are the rock crystal micro-blade, the two milky quartz monocrystals, the perforated muscovite pendant and bead, the chalcedony amulet or the amphibolite hand axe. The few studies available on Copper Age rock crystal technology show that potential sources are far and between (Morgado Rodríguez et al 2016). Regarding fibrolite, no sources exist either in the Western Sierra Morena or in the Iberian southwest, which means that we can reasonably conclude that this stone came from one of the locations suggested in the literature, such as Serranía de Ronda (Málaga) or Hoyazo de Nijar (Almería) (García González 2014: 399).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Due to the homogeneity and the brittleness of the raw material, this technique is particularly suitable for rock crystal. Recent finds from the Iberian Peninsula (Morgado et al, 2016) as well as from the megalithic site Sion-Petit-Chasseur (VS) (Honegger, 2011, pp. 166-169) and the settlement at Bellinzona-Castel Grande (TI) (Donati, 1986) show the impressive skills of Neolithic toolmakers.…”
Section: Contextualizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, rock selection might have been driven along the millennia by rock hardness and the development of tools capable of carving and drill harder rocks. We need to bear in mind that the technical skills needed to carve transparent quartz, either mono-crystals or not, into beads together with its high hardness could have shaped raw material choice (Morgado et al 2016…”
Section: Consumptionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Apart from the long-known social value of amber (see Odriozola et al 2019 for a review), it was only very recently that other translucent raw materials have attracted scholars' attention. Such is the case of rock crystal (Garrido-Cordero 2015;Morgado et al 2016) or fluorite (Cardoso et al 2012;Goemaere et al 2013;Garrido-Cordero et al 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%