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The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia
Emslie, Steven D.; Silva, Ana Maria; Valera, António; Vijande Vila, Eduardo; Melo, Linda; Curate, Francisco; Fidalgo, Daniel; Inácio, NunoIn this study, total mercury (THg) was analyzed in archaeological human bone from 23 sites dating to between the Middle Neolithic and the Antiquity. A total of 370 individuals from individual or collective burials was sampled, mostly using cortical bone from the humerus. These individuals were recovered from over 50 different funerary structures ranging from tholoi, pits, caves, and hypogea. Although cinnabar (...
The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia
Emslie, Steven D.; Silva, Ana Maria; Valera, António Carlos; Vijande Vila, Eduardo; Melo, Linda; Curate, Francisco; Fidalgo, Daniel; Inácio, NunoIn this study, total mercury (THg) was analyzed in archaeological human bone from 23 sites dating to between the Middle Neolithic and the Antiquity. A total of 370 individuals from individual or collective burials was sampled, mostly using cortical bone from the humerus. These individuals were recovered from over 50 different funerary structures ranging from tholoi, pits, caves, and hypogea. Although cinnabar (...
Mercury in archaeological human bone: biogenic or diagenetic?
Emslie, Steven D.; Alderman, Audrey; McKenzie, Ashley; Brasso, Rebecka; Taylor, Alison R.; Molina Moreno, María; Cambra-Moo, OscarWe investigated mercury (Hg) in human bone from archaeological sites in the Iberian Peninsula where the cultural use of cinnabar (HgS) as a pigment, offering or preservative in burial practices has been documented from the 4th to 2nd millennia cal B.C. (Late Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age). Previous analyses have shown high levels of total mercury (THg) in human bone at numerous Neolithic and Chalcolithic...