ECUADORIAN CINNABAR AND THE PREHISPANIC TRADE IN VERMILION PIGMENT: VIABLE HYPOTHESIS OR RED HERRING?
ECUADORIAN CINNABAR AND THE PREHISPANIC TRADE IN VERMILION PIGMENT: VIABLE HYPOTHESIS OR RED HERRING?
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厄瓜多尔朱砂与前哥伦布时期朱红色颜料贸易：可行假设还是误导信息？
DOI：
10.7183/1045-6635.27.1.22
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Cooke, Colin A.
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作者：
Burger, Richard L.;Lane, Kris E.;Cooke, Colin A.
辰砂矿石是一种鲜红色颜料（硫化汞，HgS）的来源，这种物质在西班牙人到来之前的安第斯中部地区备受珍视。传统上认为它来自秘鲁中南部的万卡维利卡，尽管一些学者认为在厄瓜多尔南部昆卡附近的阿索格斯存在西班牙人到来之前的辰砂矿源。也有人提出，在秘鲁北部的考古遗址（如巴坦格兰德）发现的辰砂可能来自这个假定的厄瓜多尔矿源。在本文中，对支持这一观点的历史和考古证据进行了评估，发现这些证据不足以支持厄瓜多尔辰砂假说。此外，最近对秘鲁北部考古样本的汞同位素分析支持了先前的假说，即这种有时被称为朱砂的鲜红色颜料的来源是在万卡维利卡开采的辰砂矿石。这个矿源位于巴坦格兰德、崇戈亚佩和帕科潘帕等考古遗址以南850多公里处。
Cinnabar ore is the source of a bright red pigment (mercury [II] sulfide, HGS), a substance that was highly valued in the Central Andes during prehispanic times. It is traditionally believed to come from Huancavelica in south-central Peru, although some scholars have argued that a prehispanic cinnabar source existed at Azogues near Cuenca in southern Ecuador. It has also been suggested that the cinnabar recovered at archaeological sites in northern Peru such as Batdn Grande may have come from this putative Ecuadorian source. In this article, the historical and archaeological evidence supporting this position is evaluated and found to be insufficient to sustain the Ecuadorian Cinnabar Hypothesis. Moreover, recent mercury isotope analysis of archaeological samples from northern Peru supports the earlier hypothesis that the source of the bright red pigment, sometimes referred to as vermilion, was cinnabar ore mined in Huancavelica. This source is located over 850 km to the south of archaeological sites such as Batcin Grande, Chongoyape, and Pacopampa.