1. Le Spondylus princeps et l'Age du Bronze dans les Andes centrales.
- Author
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HOCQUENGHEM, ANNE MARIE
- Subjects
SPONDYLUS ,COPPER ,BRONZE Age ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,RITES & ceremonies - Abstract
On the basis of archaeological and iconological data on Spondylus significant changes in nature, quantity and way of introduction of these exotic shells of great symbolic value in the central Andes can be observed by 900 B. C. They could be explained establishing a relationship with the massive sican production of arsenical copper in Batán grande and the consequences of the beginning of the Bronze Age on the exchanges between central, northern and Mesoamerican societies. From another point of view the ethnohistorical information offers an insight on the function of these valves in the myths and rituals in the central Andean religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2009