| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Characterization of Minerals, Metals and Materials 2024: Process-Structure-Property Relations and New Technologies
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| Presentation Title |
Analysis of Coronado State Historic Site Artifacts Using X-rays |
| Author(s) |
Brian M. Patterson, Steven Young, James Valdez, Michelle Espy, Alex Edgar, Jack Brett, Clay Mathers, Matthew Barbour, Michael Pettes |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Brian M. Patterson |
| Abstract Scope |
Two historic period metal artifacts were provided by the New Mexico Historic Sites to Los Alamos National Laboratory for non-destructive analysis under the Economic Development Outreach Program at LANL. The artifacts were a crossbow quarrel (or bolt head) and a pendant recovered from Kuaua Pueblo (also known as the Coronado Historic Site) in Bernalillo, NM. The quarrel is a heavily patinated metal that had been flattened. The pendant consisted of a metal casing that had previously surrounded two center gemstones on the front and rear face of the pendant. The bright red gemstone in the rear setting had fractured and was displaced from the setting, leaving only a small, loose fragment within the pendant for analysis. The front gem appeared to be very dark, near-black in color. We will describe how the artifacts were analyzed to ascertain their composition and glean insight into their provenance using a variety of techniques. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Copper / Nickel / Cobalt, Characterization, |