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Digital Object 987
Description:
Belt of pendants made with feline canines, sperm whale teeth and manatee ribs. Some of them were partially covered with gold casings. All of them have perforations. Two are carved with into a crocodile shape.
Conservation treatment:
 
Consolidated in the laboratory with B72 (5%), diluted in acetone.
Date of field recording:
 
04/05/2011
Excavation campaign:
 
2011
Record type:
 
Animal bone and/or tooth artifacts
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Archaeological site:
 
El Caño
Operation:
 
Operation 1
Stratigraphic group:
 
Tomb 2
Stratigraphic unit type:
 
Interment
Stratigraphic unit (finds):
 
134
Individual´s funerary attire:
 
I07
Calibrated Age Range:
 
Cal AD 900 to 1020 (Cal BP 1050 to 930)
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Artifacts
Animal bone artifacts:
 
Bell
Taxonomy of specimens
Vernacular name:
 
Sperm whale-manatee-mountain lion-jaguar
Genus:
 
Physeter-Trichechus-Puma-Panthera
Species:
 
Physeter macrocephalus-Trichechus manatus-Puma concolor-Panthera onca
Digital Object 987
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