The use of sperm whale ivory in Chalcolithic Portugal

• Published in: Trabajos de Prehistoria
• Main Authors: Schuhmacher, Thomas X., Banerjee, Arun, Dindorf, Willi, Sastri, Chaturvedula, Sauvage, Thierry
• Other Authors: UAM. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2016
• Subjects: Calcolítico Primera Edad de los Metales; Extremadura portuguesa Mediterráneo occidental; Marfil Hueso; Cachalote; Mamíferos marinos; Análisis científicos; Microscopia óptica; Espectroscopía Micro-Raman; Análisis elemental; Espectroscopía isotópica de masas; Arqueología; Ballenas; Botones; Buttons; cachalote; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10486/670371; https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2013.12109

Scientific analysis were undertaken within a research project concerning ivory objects from the Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age of the Iberian Peninsula. In several of the analyses of objects from Portuguese Estremadura, especially V-perforated buttons, we could detect for the first time the presen...