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Turquoise in the Life of American Indians. The mankind has known turquoise for more than ten thousand years. This is the only “live” mineral which can change its color with weather changes and the condition of its owner. Probably it is... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreNative American StudiesGemologyMineralogy
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      EgyptologyEgyptian ArchaeologyRed SeaCopper extraction and production
INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH: The overall objectives of the University of Toronto expedition to South Sinai include tracing pharaonic routes and camps en route to the turquoise and copper mining region, investigating pharaonic and indigenous... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryMilitary HistoryArchaeology
From northern China and Mongolia to the Black Sea region, turquoise was the dominant gemstone in the ornamentation of communities occupying the central and northern regions of Eurasia in the first millennium BCE and the first centuries... more
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      ArchaeologyArchaeology of MiningUzbekistanSilk Road Archaeology
Dans la moitié nord de la France, perles et pendeloques en variscite et turquoise sont le plus souvent inventoriées en milieu funéraire, et ne participent pas des dépositions dans le paysage, enterrées ou immergées, à l’image des lames... more
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      ParureTurquoiseVarisciteHypogée
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      Mythology And FolkloreNative American StudiesGemologyMineralogy
ABSTRACT: El-Markha Plain is a key coastal region providing an anchorage for Egyptian expeditions traveling to the copper and turquoise mining region in South Sinai. The University of Toronto expedition investigated a mound at Ras Budran... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryMilitary HistoryArchaeology
ABSTRACT: Our current understanding of Egypt's New Kingdom relations with the Sinai and Levant relies heavily upon the extant textual-pictorial record. It has mostly neglected the full potential of the archaeological record, even during... more
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionHistoryAncient HistoryArchaeology
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionAncient HistoryArchaeologyEgyptology
Turquoise has played an important role in the Southwest, both today and in the distant past. Increasingly, archaeologists are coming to appreciate that the mineral was likely valued for its symbolism, rather than its chemical properties... more
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      ArchaeologyDesignCeramics (Archaeology)Style
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      EgyptologyMiddle KingdomSinaiTurquoise
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      ArchaeologyEgyptian Art and ArchaeologyMesopotamian ArchaeologyEgyptian Archaeology
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      TurquoisePrehistoric turquoise mining
Some of the most quintessential pieces of Post-Classic Mesoamerican art are turquoise mosaics. These include masks, shields and more figurative pieces inlayed with turquoise tesserae, such as those of the British Museum and the National... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyPre-Columbian ArtOaxaca (Archaeology)Art Market
LOCATION 16N 11E Sec. 32 SBM 35.4281 -115.82165 Wright and others (1953) describe the location of the East Camp mine as being in Sections 32 and 33 of T.16N, R.11E, SBM and in Section 4 of T.15N, R.11E, SBM. Turquoise deposits northwest... more
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      GeologyEconomic GeologyMining HistoryMojave Desert
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      Middle KingdomSinaiTurquoise
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      Egyptian Archaeologyportable XRF (PXRF) in Archaeology and Museum ScienceTurquoise
More than 1400 turquoise stones associated with 98 archaeological artifacts from Egypt, the Near East, and Central Asia were analyzed using non-invasive point and scanning XRF. Geological specimens of turquoise from mines in the Sinai and... more
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      ArchaeologyEgyptian Art and ArchaeologyEgyptian ArchaeologyX-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectroscopy
LOCATION The mines and geology in the vicinity of Halloran Springs, San Bernardino County, were described by Tucker and Sampson in 1931. Their map is reproduced in Figure 1. It covers Townships 8 to 11 North and Ranges 13 to16 East, SB... more
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      GeologyEconomic GeologyMining HistoryGold Mineralization
ABSTRACT: The Sinai Peninsula has provided a continuous land bridge connecting northeast Africa and Asia, and particularly Ancient Egypt with the Levant. This paper focuses mainly upon past through recent explorations of Ancient Egypt’s... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyEgyptology
Translations of three graffiti type texts dating from the last years of ancient turquoise mine at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai blame jealousy for an ongoing drought. This drought is continuing due to the lack of magic crafters needed to... more
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      Pagan StudiesWitchcraft (Magic)AkkadianAncient Mining
SUMMARY: The Sinai Peninsula is a vast region, encompassing around 60,000 square kilometers with hundreds, if not thousands of archaeological sites, only a relative small sample of which have been fully explored. The Sinai attracted... more
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      Military HistoryArchaeologyEgyptologyMaritime Archaeology
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      HistoryAncient HistoryMilitary HistoryArchaeology
In Search of Turquoise Woman: Turquoise in Myths and Reality of North American Indians. This article is devoted to turquoise and its role in human life. The mankind has known turquoise for more than ten thousand years. This is the only... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreNative American StudiesGemologyMineralogy
Oxford Biblical Studies Online: “Sinai Peninsula,” in www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com
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      Red SeaCopper extraction and productionSinaiForeign relations during Ancient Egypt`s New Kingdom
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      EgyptologyGeologyMesopotamian ArchaeologyEgyptian Archaeology
LOCATION 16N 10E Sec. 33 SBM 35.4344 -115.92305 (MRDS, 2011). T.16N, R.10E, Sections 32 and 33, SBM. Turquoise deposits northeast of Silver Lake . Similar to East Camp deposits. (Wright and others, 1953, p. 149). OWNERSHIP J.B. Wood... more
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      GeologyEconomic GeologyMining HistoryMojave Desert
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyStone carving and lapidary techniques
ABSTRACT: Towards clarifying various problems and politics behind the Red Sea trade (original title). This paper aims to clarify some aspects of Egypt’s changing role in relation to other peoples and polities in the Red Sea trade... more
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      EgyptologyEgyptian ArchaeologySub-Saharan Africa Archaeology (Prehistoric Archaeology)Nubian-Egyptian Relations
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyNorth American SouthwestArchaeometry
ABSTRACT: Recent findings at a late Old Kingdom fort at Ras Budran (South Sinai). The 2002, 2004, and 2008 excavation seasons at Ras Budran, and a recent 2010 study season, have yielded a variety of emerging activity patterns for the... more
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      EgyptologyEgyptian ArchaeologyMilitary ArchitectureCross-Cultural Studies
ABSTRACT: A satellite remote sensing survey of el-Markha plain assessing areas of vegetation (NDVI), water sources, and other features, with a subsequent ground-truthing mission to investigate promising areas for ancient through more... more
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      Landscape EcologyArchaeologyEgyptologyLandscape Archaeology
LOCATION 16N 10E Sec. 31 SBM 35.4308 -115.95865 The West Camp mine is midway between the Himilaya Mine to the west and the Apache Mine to the east. Wright and others (1953) describe the location of the West Camp mine as being in T.16N,... more
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      GeologyEconomic GeologyMining HistoryMojave Desert
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Ancestors (Anthropology Of Religion)Mesoamerican Ethnohistory
En muchos sitios de Mesoamérica han sido recuperados varios mosaicos, cuentas y pendientes de turquesa. Desafortunadamente, la mayoría de los estudios sobre estos objetos se han enfocado en su significado simbólico, morfología, comercio y... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyX-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) SpectroscopyMesoamericaProvenance studies of archaeological material
Essay on small blue stone bead found in frozen tombs in Altai by S.Rudenko in 1949.
ISBN 978-5-93572-582-2
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      Pazyryk CultureTurquoise
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyGemologyMineralogyNeolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology
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      Anthropology of Tibet and the HimalayasLadakhi StudiesTurquoiseLadakh, Tibet , Himalayan areas
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyLandscape Archaeology
ABSTRACT: The 2008 excavations at Ras Budran continued exposing the late Old Kingdom fort’s courtyard, finding baking installations, deep hollows filled by ash and sand, and parts of an underlying occupation layer that may reflect earlier... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyEgyptologyStrategy (Military Science)
ABSTRACT: This encyclopedia entry contains a summary of the explorations and findings at Serabit el-Khadim spanning 1762 to the 1990s, including Predynastic, pharaonic, and later activity at nearby sites such as several Chalcolithic to... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyEgyptology
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      TurquoisePrehistoric turquoise mining
The occurrence of nonlocal objects, raw materials, and ideas in the southwestern United States (U.S. SW) has long been recognized as evidence of interaction between prehispanic peoples of this region and those of greater Mesoamerica.... more
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      Southwestern ArchaeologyHohokam ArchaeologyTurquoiseMesoamerica-U.S. Southwest Interaction
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      Experimental ArchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyMesoamericaTurquoise
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      Ancient HistoryEgyptologyEgyptian ArchaeologyMilitary Architecture
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyTechnologyMesoamerican Archaeology
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      Qing Dynasty (Ch'ing Dynasty)JadeLate Imperial ChinaChinese landscape painting
Los aztecas utilizaron una cantidad importante de minerales azul-verdosos generalmente designados como turquesas para hacer ofrendas a sus dioses. Nuestro estudio propone de determinar la composición química de los minerales azules del... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyScanning Electron MicroscopyX-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) SpectroscopyMesoamerica
ABSTRACT: The 2002 University of Toronto and SCA (renamed MoA) expedition to el-Markha Plain, South Sinai, mapped and excavated the eastern portion of a small, seasonal copper smelting site and anchorage (Rothenberg’s site 346), which W.... more
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      ArchaeologyEgyptologyMaritime ArchaeologyAnthropology