TY - JOUR
T1 - Mural paintings in Ancient Peru
T2 - The case of Tambo Colorado, Pisco Valley
AU - Wright, Véronique
AU - Pacheco, Gianella
AU - Torres, Henry
AU - Huaman, Oliver
AU - Watanave, Aldo
AU - Zeballos-Velasquez, Elvira L.
AU - Suchomel, Matthew R.
AU - Suescun, Leopoldo
AU - Moulin, Cléa
AU - Sandoval, Patricia Carola Melero
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2015/12/21
Y1 - 2015/12/21
N2 - Tambo Colorado is one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Southern Peruvian coast, because of its stunning architecture, its extraordinary pictorial decoration, and its strategic location in the section of the Great Inca Road. The Research Project Tambo Colorado considers necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis encompassing nature of the materials (archaeometric analysis) as well as a proper understanding of their conservation status of its architecture. In this regard interdisciplinary research provides the necessary tools to achieve these goals. For this reason our team is integrated by archaeometrists, engineers, conservators and archaeologists. Due to of this transdisciplinary approach, one of the main objective is the study of painting technology developed by the craftsmen of the site. The first results obtained, thanks to an analytical strategy combining observation and elemental and structural analysis (colorimetry, SEM-EDS, XRF, XRD and SXRD), allow us to identify the coloring materials used. These data enabled to reconstruct the operational chain followed to elaborate the murals (since the pigments extraction to the making of the murals) but also to consider and develop a suitable surfaces conservation plan.
AB - Tambo Colorado is one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Southern Peruvian coast, because of its stunning architecture, its extraordinary pictorial decoration, and its strategic location in the section of the Great Inca Road. The Research Project Tambo Colorado considers necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis encompassing nature of the materials (archaeometric analysis) as well as a proper understanding of their conservation status of its architecture. In this regard interdisciplinary research provides the necessary tools to achieve these goals. For this reason our team is integrated by archaeometrists, engineers, conservators and archaeologists. Due to of this transdisciplinary approach, one of the main objective is the study of painting technology developed by the craftsmen of the site. The first results obtained, thanks to an analytical strategy combining observation and elemental and structural analysis (colorimetry, SEM-EDS, XRF, XRD and SXRD), allow us to identify the coloring materials used. These data enabled to reconstruct the operational chain followed to elaborate the murals (since the pigments extraction to the making of the murals) but also to consider and develop a suitable surfaces conservation plan.
KW - Archaeometry
KW - Conservation
KW - Inca
KW - Mural painting
KW - Peru
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020866388&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/20548923.2015.1133118
DO - 10.1080/20548923.2015.1133118
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85020866388
SN - 2054-8923
VL - 1
SP - 11
EP - 21
JO - Science and Technology of Archaeological Research
JF - Science and Technology of Archaeological Research
IS - 2
ER -