Technological Analysis and Source Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from a Sun Pyramid Substructure Cache, Teotihuacan, Mexico
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X Ray
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The following report provides new data on a Sun Pyramid cache excavated by René Millon in 1959, including confirmation that the cache was associated with a substructure. A technological analysis illustrates the anthropomorphic eccentric production sequence, and indicates that the miniature projectile points were produced from debitage from multiple reduction technologies. All obsidian artifacts were attributed to the Otumba source area via energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF). In addition to providing data on the production of obsidian implements for ritual deposits, we suggest that the cache may be a representation of scaffold sacrifice.
1989 ◽
Vol 47
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pp. 56-57
1994 ◽
Vol 52
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pp. 430-431
Comparison of high-angle take-off and low-angle take-off EDX detector geometry of the HF-2000 FE-TEM
1993 ◽
Vol 51
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pp. 252-253
2015 ◽