Muiraquitãs, lithic artifacts found in the Amazon basin, have been considered to be Asian in origin, or to have been sculpted by the legendary female Amazon warriors. These pieces are now very rare, and are found mainly in museum collections. In the present study, the mineralogical and chemical content of 23 specimens from the collections of the Museu de Gemas (Gemstone Museum) and Museu do Encontro (Meeting Museum) in Belém, Brazil, were analyzed. Most of the pieces were made of minerals commonly found in Brazil - quartz, albite, microcline, variscite, anorthite, and tremolite (the equivalent of nephritic jade). However, four of the pieces were made of jadeite, that is, jadeitic jade, which is unknown in the Amazon basin or in other parts ...
A pattern of accidental stone-tool finds in the terra firme of the Curua river in the middle Xingu ...
The Vieirópolis Pegmatite Field is characterized by amazonite- and/or beryl-bearing pegmatites. This...
O objetivo do presente trabalho é, através do estudo do material lítico polido do interior de Minas ...
Several archaeological black earth (ABE) sites occur in the Amazon region. They contain fragments of...
O trabalho tem como propósito auxiliar estudantes, pesquisadores e profissionais de Arqueologia a co...
Several archaeological black earth (ABE) sites occur in the Amazon region. They contain fragments of...
Several Archaeological Dark Earth (ADE) sites have been already found in the Colombian Amazon forest...
ABSTRACT: The Amazonia Forest is an important biome that possesses great diversity of fauna and flor...
Os muiraquitãs são artefatos líticos com formas batraquianas confeccionados principalmente em pedra ...
Minerals were seen merely as sources of chemicals: iron ore, copper ore, etc. However, minerals are ...
Archaeometry is applied to analyze archaeological ceramics in the Peruvian Amazon. This scientific m...
The jade – like other similar greenstones – was very high valued among Mesoamerican peoples. For its...
This paper carried out a chemical investigation of archaeological ceramic artifacts found in archaeo...
A pattern of accidental stone-tool finds in the terra firme of the Curua river in the middle Xingu b...
Pouco se conhece sobre os atributos mineralógicos e químicos dos solos da região do Alto Solimões, e...
A pattern of accidental stone-tool finds in the terra firme of the Curua river in the middle Xingu ...
The Vieirópolis Pegmatite Field is characterized by amazonite- and/or beryl-bearing pegmatites. This...
O objetivo do presente trabalho é, através do estudo do material lítico polido do interior de Minas ...
Several archaeological black earth (ABE) sites occur in the Amazon region. They contain fragments of...
O trabalho tem como propósito auxiliar estudantes, pesquisadores e profissionais de Arqueologia a co...
Several archaeological black earth (ABE) sites occur in the Amazon region. They contain fragments of...
Several Archaeological Dark Earth (ADE) sites have been already found in the Colombian Amazon forest...
ABSTRACT: The Amazonia Forest is an important biome that possesses great diversity of fauna and flor...
Os muiraquitãs são artefatos líticos com formas batraquianas confeccionados principalmente em pedra ...
Minerals were seen merely as sources of chemicals: iron ore, copper ore, etc. However, minerals are ...
Archaeometry is applied to analyze archaeological ceramics in the Peruvian Amazon. This scientific m...
The jade – like other similar greenstones – was very high valued among Mesoamerican peoples. For its...
This paper carried out a chemical investigation of archaeological ceramic artifacts found in archaeo...
A pattern of accidental stone-tool finds in the terra firme of the Curua river in the middle Xingu b...
Pouco se conhece sobre os atributos mineralógicos e químicos dos solos da região do Alto Solimões, e...
A pattern of accidental stone-tool finds in the terra firme of the Curua river in the middle Xingu ...
The Vieirópolis Pegmatite Field is characterized by amazonite- and/or beryl-bearing pegmatites. This...
O objetivo do presente trabalho é, através do estudo do material lítico polido do interior de Minas ...