Integrated mineralogical and typological study of Axe-God pendants from the Jade and pre-Columbian Culture Museum in Costa Rica

Camila Hernández-Murillo; Sergio García; Patricia Fernández; Matthieu Ménager; Mavis L. Montero

doi:10.15517/cat.v31i1.47146

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2021), Artículos

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2021)

Integrated mineralogical and typological study of Axe-God pendants from the Jade and pre-Columbian Culture Museum in Costa Rica

Artículos

https://doi.org/10.15517/cat.v31i1.47146

Published August 31, 2021

Camila Hernández-Murillo⁺⁻
Sergio García⁺⁻
Patricia Fernández⁺⁻
Matthieu Ménager⁺⁻
Mavis L. Montero⁺⁻

Camila Hernández-Murillo

University of Costa Rica (UCR by its acronym in Spanish), School of Chemistry

Sergio García

Jade and Pre-Columbian Culture Museum, National Insurance Institute (INS, by its acronym in Spanish)

Patricia Fernández

University of Costa Rica (UCR), Center for Anthropological Research (CIAN, by its acronym in Spanish)

Matthieu Ménager

IMBE- Avignon University/ CNRS/ IRD/ Aix-Marseille University, Restoration Engineering of Natural and Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Sciences

Mavis L. Montero

University of Costa Rica (UCR by its acronym in Spanish), School of Chemistry

Axe-God pendant and their characteristic features: artifact 4451 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 CR)

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Figure S1: Photographs of axe-god pendants from the five different motifs and their respective head categories (JPG)

Figure S2: Examples of FTIR spectra of jadeite and its associated minerales, including spectra from Axe-God pendants and of reference samples (Lafuente et al., 2016; Delgado Robles et al., 2015) (JPG)

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Keywords

Jade
Greenstones
Axe-God Pendants
Costa Rica archaeology
Lower Central America
Jade
Piedras Verdes
Colgantes hachoides
Arqueología de Costa Rica
Baja América Central

How to Cite

Hernández-Murillo, C., García, S., Fernández, P., Ménager, M., & Montero, M. L. (2021). Integrated mineralogical and typological study of Axe-God pendants from the Jade and pre-Columbian Culture Museum in Costa Rica. Cuadernos De Antropología, 31(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.15517/cat.v31i1.47146

Abstract

The mineralogical composition and typological classification of a group of 226 Axe-God pendants from the Jade and pre-Columbian Culture Museum (from the Instituto Nacional de Seguros) in San José (Costa Rica) was studied, using a non-invasive characterization technique and a novel stylistic classification scheme. Possible composition-design correlations were examined through descriptive and functional statistical analysis. This study constitutes an initial step towards the comprehensive analysis of this distinctive pendant design.

https://doi.org/10.15517/cat.v31i1.47146

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Figure S1: Photographs of axe-god pendants from the five different motifs and their respective head categories (JPG)

Figure S2: Examples of FTIR spectra of jadeite and its associated minerales, including spectra from Axe-God pendants and of reference samples (Lafuente et al., 2016; Delgado Robles et al., 2015) (JPG)

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