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The Nondestructive Identification of Worn Coins from the Marquette Mission Site, St. Ignace, Michigan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Russell K. Skowronek  and
Max M. Houck
Russell K. Skowronek
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and The Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
Max M. Houck
Affiliation:
Link Analytical, Inc., 8017 Excelsior Drive, Madison, WI 53717
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Abstract

During the past 20 years a growing number of archaeologists have focused their investigations on contact and early historic-era sites in the New World. Frequently the most difficult aspect of these studies is the accurate identification of a site's age, function, and cultural affiliation from recovered material remains. Concurrent with this research has been an increasing concern for the conservation and preservation of the fragile objects recovered from these sites. One of the most important classes of artifacts for the dating and cultural identification of sites are coins. In this study we review a variety of nondestructive surface-enhancement techniques that were undertaken for the detailed examination of worn coins recovered from the seventeenth-century Marquette Mission site in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Résumé

Résumé

Durante los últimos 20 años un gran número de arqueólogos ha enfocado su investigaciones arqueólogicas del Nuevo Mundo en los sitios de la época historica temprana. En muchos casos el aspecto más dificil de estos estudios es la identificatión de la edad, la función, y la cultura a la que pertenece del sitio arqueológico a través de restos materiales. Además de los problemas relacionado con identificatión, los arqueólogos han considerado como temas prioritarios la conservatión y la preservatión de los objetos frágiles. Uno de los objetos más importantes para la identificación de la época y la cultura es la moneda. En elpresente trabajo describimos las técnicas que no destruye, sino realce, la superficie de las monedas que fueron utilizado en el estudio de monedas excavado de un sitio del siglo XVII–Marquette Mission–ubicado en el estado de Michigan, EE.UU.

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American Antiquity , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 337 - 347
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1990

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