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El Chorro de Maíta / 137 Delmonte 1996:20). The tubular form allows the metal to be strung on thread for use in necklaces, pendants, or other body ornaments. These metal tubes appear located mostly near the neck, thorax, pelvis, and wrist of the skeletons. In burial number 25, ¤ve of these tubular pieces were found together with a metallic disk covered with a cotton textile (see Figure 7.4) placed under the left knee (Guarch Delmonte 1996:20). Until recently, it was assumed that these tubes were made of copper (Guarch Delmonte 1996:20), but recent analysis of X-ray ®uorescence has determined that one of the tubes from burial no. 60 and the one from burial no. 84 were made of an alloy known as latón or brass (a copper-zinc alloy). One of the tubes found with the medallion of burial no. 25 was produced from an alloy with a high concentration of copper (Valcárcel 2002b). Besides stone beads and metallic tubular pieces, three skeletons are accompanied by several beads made of a material that could be coral (Guarch Delmonte 1996:22), another one by beads of vegetable resin, and two others with ear spools (in one case made of vegetable resin and in the other of quartzite). Another skeleton had a half-¤nished bead made of ¤sh vertebra, and two others had three pearl beads. Some of the burials contained pieces made of yet different materials. Burial 57 can be considered an exceptional case since it included possible coral and quartzite beads, one metallic tubular pendant and, unique in the cemetery, an ornitomorphic pendant elaborated from an alloy of gold, copper, and silver, as well as four laminar pendants and a bell made of the same alloy (see Figure 7.4), three pearl beads, two beads seemingly manufactured from gold wire, and a hollow spherical bead that seems to be made of an alloy of gold, copper, and silver (Guarch Delmonte 1996:21–22). In addition to these objects, burials 47, 57, and 72 have small cloth remnants, and next to burial 31 part of a human bone marked with incisions (Guarch Delmonte 1996:21) was found. It is interesting that both burials 31 and 57 include metallic tubular pieces or other ornaments, suggesting a strong concentration of metallic materials among a restricted number of individuals. Excluding burials 72 and 47 that had only textile remains, all the objects mentioned are concentrated on only 25 skeletons of the 110 extracted by the Departamento Centro Oriental de Arqueología, that is to say 22.7 percent of the total sample. A metal disc accompanied burial no. 25, the metallic tubular pieces appear in 17 burials, and ornaments of gold, copper, and silver, as well as the pearls, are all represented in single burials; the nonmetallic body ornaments are located in 10 burials. As with the stone beads, all these artifacts seem to be highly valued and
7.4. Objects associated with burials from the Chorro de Maíta cemetery: (a) bells made of guanín, Burial no. 57; (b) laminar pendant made of guanín, Burial no. 57; (c) ornitomorphic pendant made of a gold, copper, and silver alloy, Burial no. 57; (d) metallic disk covered with a piece of textile and attached with metallic tubes (both sides), Burial no. 25. Drawings by Antonio Cruz Bermúdez.
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Contents List of Figures List of Ta
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Part I History of Cuban Archaeology
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