The strange case of the earliest silver extraction by European colonists in the New World
The strange case of the earliest silver extraction by European colonists in the New World
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欧洲殖民者在新大陆最早开采白银的奇案
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
W. Lyman
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作者：
A. Thibodeau;D. Killick;J. Ruíz;J. Chesley;K. Deagan;J. M. Cruxent;W. Lyman
拉伊莎贝拉是新世界的第一个欧洲城镇，由克里斯托弗·哥伦布第二次探险于 1494 年建立，但于 1498 年被废弃。定居的主要动机是寻找和开采贵金属矿藏。拉伊莎贝拉银矿开采的考古证据似乎表明，该探险队已在加勒比地区找到并测试了含银铅矿床。铅同位素分析驳斥了这一假设，但提供了新的证据，证明拉伊莎贝拉居民在被遗弃之前的绝望。
La Isabela, the first European town in the New World, was established in 1494 by the second expedition of Christopher Columbus but was abandoned by 1498. The main motive for settlement was to find and exploit deposits of precious metals. Archaeological evidence of silver extraction at La Isabela seemed to indicate that the expedition had located and tested deposits of silver-bearing lead ore in the Caribbean. Lead isotope analysis refutes this hypothesis but provides new evidence of the desperation of the inhabitants of La Isabela just before its abandonment.