The occurrence of tortoiseshell on a pre-Hispanic Maya mosaic mask

Frazier, J.; Ishihara-Brito, Reiko

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00047943

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“…A wide range of materials was used alongside blue-green stone to create the beautifully crafted designs, figures, and scenes depicted. Some of these include gold, tortoiseshell (Frazier and Ishihara-Brito 2012:825), marine shell, feathers, jet, and pigment (McEwan et al 2006:30–31). Similar to the use of varying blue-green stone hues to create design elements, other mosaic materials were carefully selected to create depth, design, and character features (Cartwright et al 2012:12).…”

Section: Blue-green Stone Mosaics In Mesoamericamentioning

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The Social Use and Value of Blue-Green Stone Mosaics at Sites within Canal System 2, Phoenix Basin, Hohokam Regional System

Shepard¹,

Russell²,

Schwartz

et al. 2021

Am. Antiq.

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The occurrence of nonlocal objects, raw materials, and ideas in the southwestern United States (U.S. SW) has long been recognized as evidence of interaction between prehispanic peoples of this region and those of greater Mesoamerica. Although many archaeologists have analyzed the directionality and potential means by which these objects and concepts moved across the landscape, few have assessed the degree to which Mesoamerican practices and traditional assemblages remained intact as the artifacts and ideas moved farther from their places of origin. The current study analyzes the distribution and deposition of blue-green stone mosaics, a craft technology that was well established in Mesoamerica by the Late Preclassic period (300 BC–AD 250) and spread to the U.S. SW by the start of the Hohokam Pioneer period (AD 475). We assess the spatial distribution, contextual deposition, and morphology of mosaics at sites within Hohokam Canal System 2, located in the Phoenix Basin of Arizona. We use these data to infer mosaics’ social value and function within Hohokam social structure. Analyses suggest that, although the technology of mosaic making may have originated in Mesoamerica, the contexts and ways in which mosaics were used in the Hohokam regional system were decidedly Hohokam.

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Section: Blue-green Stone Mosaics In Mesoamericamentioning

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The Social Use and Value of Blue-Green Stone Mosaics at Sites within Canal System 2, Phoenix Basin, Hohokam Regional System

Shepard¹,

Russell²,

Schwartz

et al. 2021

Am. Antiq.

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“…Tortugas marinas y seres humanos han establecido relaciones estrechas en la cohabitación de espacios litorales a lo largo de la historia y en diferentes partes del mundo (Ayres 1979, Allen 2007, Frazier et al 2007, Woodrom 2010. Por lo general, las relaciones no se limitan a compartir un medio de vida, sino que es habitual que los seres humanos capturen tortugas para su alimentación (Gourou 1964, Frazier 1980, Woodrom 2003) y el aprovechamiento de huesos y caparazones como insumos en la manufactura de artefactos de diversa índole, tanto para fines prácticos, cotidianos y mundanos como para rituales simbólicos y ornamentales , Brown 2011, Frazier & Ishihara-Brito 2012, Gillreath-Brown & Peres 2017, 2018. Estos usos han sido documentados en sitios arqueológicos de distinta antigüedad en la península arábiga, en torno al océano Índico, en el Caribe centroamericano, el Yucatán, Norteamérica, la Polinesia y Sudamérica, demostrando su amplitud geográfica y profundidad histórica (Frazier 2005).…”

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Relaciones entre tortugas marinas y seres humanos en la costa de Atacama: Dos ejemplos arqueológicos

Ballesteo

Labarca

Calas

2018

Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb.

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La arqueología del litoral del desierto de Atacama ha concentrado sus estudios en un espectro reducido de animales, sobrerrepresentando los más tradicionales, conocidos y populares, como peces, camélidos y otáridos, en desmedro de otros con un registro más acotado pero igualmente significativo. Presentamos una reflexión acerca de las relaciones entre seres humanos y tortugas marinas, destacando la diversidad de estrategias, instancias y mecanismos a través de los cuales estas relaciones se construían y actuaban. Palabras clave: Chelonioidea, Caza marina, Relaciones interespecie, costa del norte de Chile. The archaeology from the Atacama Desert littoral had centered their studies into a reduced animal spectrum, over representing those more traditional, known, and popular, as fishes, camelids and otarides, in detriment of others, with a less bounded but equally significant register. We present a reflection about humans and sea turtles relationships, practically absents from the bestiary of the northern Chile littoral populations, focusing in their interespecies relations, highlighting the diversity of strategies, instances, and mechanism through which this those relations where constructed and acted.

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“…While there is an abundance of turtle remains in the Caribbean from the second millennium BCE [ 21 , 22 ] and elsewhere in the world from at least 5000 BCE attesting of the use of marine turtles in the past, the archaeological evidence is essentially based on turtle bones found in connection with food consumption, funerary offerings, or worked into tools and other objects [ 7 , 21 ]. Tortoiseshell was used to make fishhooks in the seventeenth and eighteenth century in the Caribbean [ 21 , 23 ], but has only been identified in one pre-Hispanic object from Mexico (possibly Yucatan coast), a Maya mosaic mask from the thirteenth to fourteenth century AD [ 24 ]. However, tortoiseshell becomes widespread in craftmanship from the sixteenth century onward, and trade with European countries intensified to obtain the exotic material for a variety of applications from small object to marquetry.…”

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Creation of a peptide database of corneous beta-proteins of marine turtles for the identification of tortoiseshell: archaeological combs as case study

Solazzo

Soulat²,

Cleland

2021

R. Soc. open sci.

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Tortoiseshell is a proteinaceous material derived from the scutes of marine turtles, and was shaped into an abundance of objects, especially luxurious items, at its peak in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. It has continued to be used even after the advent of plastics and remains one of the main causes of illegal poaching of marine turtles, in particular the hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata . Tortoiseshell is made of structural proteins, of which the most abundant are known as β-keratins, or ‘corneous beta-proteins' (CBPs), a family of short proteins containing a central structure in β-sheets. There are, however, few CBP sequences of marine turtles in protein databases. The scutes of the five main species of marine turtles ( Chelonia mydas , Caretta caretta, Eretmochelys imbricata , Lepidochelys olivacea and Lepidochelys kempii ) were analysed by proteomics, using nano-liquid chromatography-Orbitrap-mass spectrometry to generate peptidic markers for species identification. A total of 187 marker sequences were identified, the large majority of them obtained from automated de novo sequencing. The sequences were classified into peptides A to F: A to D at the N-terminus and central region that forms the β-pleated sheets, E1–4 for a variable region of glycine-repeats region and F at the C-terminus. The markers were tested against a set of combs discovered in various archaeological sites of modern period in France, successfully identifying hawksbill turtle and highlighting patterns of degradation in archaeological tortoiseshell.

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The occurrence of tortoiseshell on a pre-Hispanic Maya mosaic mask

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

The Social Use and Value of Blue-Green Stone Mosaics at Sites within Canal System 2, Phoenix Basin, Hohokam Regional System

The Social Use and Value of Blue-Green Stone Mosaics at Sites within Canal System 2, Phoenix Basin, Hohokam Regional System

Relaciones entre tortugas marinas y seres humanos en la costa de Atacama: Dos ejemplos arqueológicos

Creation of a peptide database of corneous beta-proteins of marine turtles for the identification of tortoiseshell: archaeological combs as case study

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