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Isotopes and bioarchaeology in the Andes: Diet, life histories, and ritual 安第斯山脉的同位素和生物考古学：饮食、生活史和仪式

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12989

Augusto Tessone, Ramiro Barberena, Kelly J. Knudson

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Seeing is believing: The colour of silver alloys and the global silver circulation in the Chinese Ming and Qing dynasties 眼见为实：银合金的颜色与中国明清时期的全球白银流通

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12990

Lin Sun, Gongle Yang, Rui Guo, Xinxing Ren, Mark Pollard, Ruiliang Liu

{"title":"Seeing is believing: The colour of silver alloys and the global silver circulation in the Chinese Ming and Qing dynasties","authors":"Lin Sun, Gongle Yang, Rui Guo, Xinxing Ren, Mark Pollard, Ruiliang Liu","doi":"10.1111/arcm.12990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12990","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigates the correlation between colour perception and the circulation of silver in China during the Ming (1368–1644 CE) and Qing (1644–1911 CE) dynasties. The primary aim is to deepen our understanding of how silver alloys were perceived and experienced in this historical context while also situating our study within the broader context of the global silver trade. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver possessed immense historical significance as a precious commodity. We argue that copper had a more substantial influence on the final colour of silver alloys compared to lead. Furthermore, employing a colourimetric model, our Monte-Carlo simulation demonstrates that over 70% of silver from Mesoamerica to China could be discerned by nonexperts using only their unaided vision, largely due to the elevated copper content. Crucially, our simulation experiment reveals differing effects of copper and lead on the colour of silver alloys. The latter demonstrates minimal change until reaching a threshold of 15%, signifying that lead is a suitable and cost-effective substitute for silver. These findings suggest that the detection of silver purity was less demanding than previously assumed, opening up opportunities for arbitrage.","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"66 6","pages":"1297-1312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/arcm.12990","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Black paintings in the late Yocavil ceramics (11th–17th centuries): Applying micro X-ray diffraction to the study of archaeological potteries in Northwest Argentina 约卡维尔晚期陶瓷中的黑色绘画（11-17 世纪）：应用微型 X 射线衍射技术研究阿根廷西北部的考古陶器

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12987

María Cecilia Fuertes, Valeria Palamarczuk, Cristián Huck-Iriart, Diego G. Lamas

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Stonehenge revisited: A geochemical approach to interpreting the geographical source of sarsen stone #58 巨石阵重访：用地球化学方法解释萨森石的地理来源 #58

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12999

Ronald G. V. Hancock, Michael P. Gorton, William C. Mahaney, Suzanne Aufreiter, Kostalena Michelaki

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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins 论陶瓷技术的本质：从恩培多克勒到道金斯

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12997

Robert B. Heimann

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On the formation of charred millet aggregates in archaeological assemblages 论考古学集合体中焦化小米集合体的形成

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12983

Andrés Teira-Brión, Joeri Kaal, Michael Charles

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Organic residue analysis in Latin American archaeology: Past, present, and future perspectives 拉丁美洲考古学中的有机残留物分析：过去、现在和未来展望

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12978

Irene Lantos, Cecilia Chaile, Valeria P. Careaga, Lucía de Salazar, Marta S. Maier

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Treasure legacy or political symbolization: Longquan celadon excavated from the Smederevo Fortress of Serbia 宝藏遗产还是政治象征塞尔维亚斯梅代雷沃要塞出土的龙泉青瓷

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12981

Xuekun Wang, Vesna Bikic, Yulai Chen, Ana Mitrovic, Rui Wen

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Obsidian in the Caribbean islands? Mysterious Ceramic Age glass artefacts in the Lesser Antilles 加勒比群岛的黑曜石？小安的列斯群岛神秘的陶瓷时代玻璃制品

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12980

Arthur Leck, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, Guillaume Carazzo, Bernard Gratuze, Jessica Langlade, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Céline Leandri, Isaac Shearn, Christian Stouvenot, Alain Queffelec

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A Bayesian alternative for aoristic analyses in archaeology 考古学先验分析的贝叶斯替代方法

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Archaeometry Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12984

Enrico R. Crema

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