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Arriaza, B; Ogalde, J P; Campos-Vallette, M; Paipa, C; Leyton, P; Lara, N Toxic Pigment in a Capacocha Burial: Instrumental Identification of Cinnabar in Inca Human Remains from Iquique, Chile Artículo de revista Archaeometry, 60 (6), pp. 1324-1333, 2018, ISSN: 0003-813x. Resumen | Enlaces | BibTeX | Etiquetas: ancient cerro coast esmeralda, exposure, hematite, insight, mercury mercury, mortuary nasca, pigments, poisoning, pottery, raman red rituals, sem, soils, spectroscopy @article{RN408, title = {Toxic Pigment in a Capacocha Burial: Instrumental Identification of Cinnabar in Inca Human Remains from Iquique, Chile}, author = { B. Arriaza and J.P. Ogalde and M. Campos-Vallette and C. Paipa and P. Leyton and N. Lara}, url = {/brokenurl#<Go to ISI>://WOS:000449888500012}, doi = {10.1111/arcm.12392}, issn = {0003-813x}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, journal = {Archaeometry}, volume = {60}, number = {6}, pages = {1324-1333}, abstract = {We report on the analysis of a red pigment found in a lavish Inca burial from Cerro Esmeralda, Chile, associated with the human sacrifice of two young girls. The outcome shows that the red pigment is mainly cinnabar, with 95% of HgS content. Cinnabar is rarely found in the archaeological record of Chile. Thus, we propose that our results are another line of evidence supporting Iquique's Cerro Esmeralda inhumation as a unique Inca ritual. It was a special lower-elevation capacocha burial, most probably undertaken to politically and symbolically incorporate the coastal people into the Tawantinsuyo Empire.}, keywords = {ancient cerro coast esmeralda, exposure, hematite, insight, mercury mercury, mortuary nasca, pigments, poisoning, pottery, raman red rituals, sem, soils, spectroscopy}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } We report on the analysis of a red pigment found in a lavish Inca burial from Cerro Esmeralda, Chile, associated with the human sacrifice of two young girls. The outcome shows that the red pigment is mainly cinnabar, with 95% of HgS content. Cinnabar is rarely found in the archaeological record of Chile. Thus, we propose that our results are another line of evidence supporting Iquique's Cerro Esmeralda inhumation as a unique Inca ritual. It was a special lower-elevation capacocha burial, most probably undertaken to politically and symbolically incorporate the coastal people into the Tawantinsuyo Empire. |
2018 |
Toxic Pigment in a Capacocha Burial: Instrumental Identification of Cinnabar in Inca Human Remains from Iquique, Chile Artículo de revista Archaeometry, 60 (6), pp. 1324-1333, 2018, ISSN: 0003-813x. |