Raw material, gestures, artefacts. An approach to the work of bone and ivory in the Iron Age in the Iberian peninsula

Parreño, Consuelo Mata; Soria-Combadiera, Lucía; Martín, Marta Blasco; Fuentes-Albero, Ma Mercedes; Cabo, Ignacio Fuertes; Mataix, Eva Collado

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.045

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“…During the Iron Age, large-size mammals like elephants or hippopotamus were not present in the Iberian Peninsula and obtaining ivory from their tusks was difficult; thus, it was a very valuable raw material. Due to the difficult access to ivory (Mata-Parreño et al 2017, 2018, the diffusion of this material or even of finished artifacts in the Iberian territory took action maybe by itinerant craftsmen.…”

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Decoration composition of Iberian Iron Age ivory artifacts identified by no-destructive chemical analyses

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Gallello

Soria-Combadiera

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Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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In this work, five unique Iberian Iron Age handles have been studied. The use of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy no-destructive techniques has allowed us to identify two raw materials (amber and tin) used to decorate the ivory handles. Due to the finesse of their inlaid decoration and the value and exoticism of the material employed for their manufacture, these ivory objects are really exceptional Iberian archaeology findings. Interestingly, it has been possible to determine that tin was used as an adherent material to fix the inlaid small pieces of amber in the handles. The obtained results allow the better understanding of the manufacturing processes, areas of production, and accessibility to exotic materials of valuable objects during the Iberian period.

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Section: Archaeological Evaluation and Overviewmentioning

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Decoration composition of Iberian Iron Age ivory artifacts identified by no-destructive chemical analyses

Martín

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Soria-Combadiera

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Worked Bone and Archaeology: Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group in Iasi 2016

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2018

Quaternary International

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El prestigio de los objetos: mangos de marfil en el mundo ibérico

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El estudio se centra en una serie de mangos de marfil de características morfotécnicas similares, recuperados en espacios de hábitat y funerarios ibéricos y datados entre el s. IV y el s. II a. C. Se trata de objetos de prestigio al alcance de una élite aristocrática, que han sido elaborados con materias primas exóticas (marfil) y técnicas decorativas inusuales que indican una especialización. A través de análisis de composición por infrarrojo cercano por Transformada de Fourier (FT-NIR) y de fluorescencia de rayos X (pXRF) se ha podido documentar la presencia de incrustaciones de ámbar adheridas a la superficie de los mangos mediante el uso del estaño como soldadura blanda y el empleo de apliques metálicos de bronce y plata. Se debate sobre la procedencia de estas piezas y sobre el conocimiento técnico artesanal necesario para fabricarlas.

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Raw material, gestures, artefacts. An approach to the work of bone and ivory in the Iron Age in the Iberian peninsula

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Decoration composition of Iberian Iron Age ivory artifacts identified by no-destructive chemical analyses

Decoration composition of Iberian Iron Age ivory artifacts identified by no-destructive chemical analyses

Worked Bone and Archaeology: Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group in Iasi 2016

El prestigio de los objetos: mangos de marfil en el mundo ibérico

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