{"id":"MNAURUGUAY2017-001","label":"Arroyo de la Tuna slate blade","people_or_site":"Barra del Arroyo de la Tuna, Canelones (coastal occupations)","country_current":"Uruguay","historic_region":"Canelones coast, Río de la Plata","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"","source_term":"colgante lítico (stone pendant)","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Elongated elliptical blade of dark grey slate, 107 × 37 × 1 mm, shaped, smoothed, polished and burnished, with one small hole near its narrower end. Several old breaks across the body and the pierced end have been joined.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"mna_uruguay_oliveras6995_colgante_litico","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.mna.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/124306/1/patrimonio-arqueologico---colgante-litico.pdf","page_or_plate":"MNA specimen sheet (one page); Logros de la humanidad catalogue p. 21 (PDF p. 23)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Mouth (barra) of Arroyo La Tuna on the Río de la Plata coast, Canelones, about 1 km uncertainty; OSM places the stream at -34.7786, -55.5584 and La Tuna locality at -34.7829, -55.5605. Named findspot only; no excavation unit published. Not the Montevideo museum.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Someone on the Canelones shore of the Río de la Plata took a piece of dark slate, chipped it into a long leaf, then smoothed, polished and burnished it down to a single millimetre, and drilled one small hole through the narrower end. It turned up in 1933 on the bar where the Arroyo de la Tuna runs into the estuary, left by one of the coastal peoples who lived along this shore. Its age is unknown. Similar slate pieces have come from Punta del Este and from the mouth of the Río Negro.","pull_quote":"Si bien desconocemos su función original, se ha identificado tradicionalmente a este tipo de objeto como un colgante lítico, relacionado al adorno personal.","pull_quote_translation":"Although we do not know its original function, this kind of object has traditionally been identified as a stone pendant, related to personal adornment.","pull_quote_cite":"Museo Nacional de Antropología, Montevideo, specimen sheet for Francisco Oliveras collection 6.995","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"Undated","date_qualification":"Found in 1933; age unknown.","date_basis":"undated_terminus","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"mna_uruguay_oliveras6995_colgante_litico, MNA Logros de la humanidad catalogue p. 21; MNA specimen sheet, Oliveras 6.995","sources":[{"citation":"Museo Nacional de Antropología (Montevideo), Patrimonio Arqueológico: Colección Francisco Oliveras, Pieza 6.995, Probable colgante lítico","url":"https://www.mna.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/124306/1/patrimonio-arqueologico---colgante-litico.pdf"},{"citation":"Museo Nacional de Antropología, Logros de la humanidad durante la prehistoria: catálogo de la exposición (2017), p. 21","url":"https://www.mna.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/107998/1/catalogo_logros-de-la-humanidad.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Museo Nacional de Antropología (Montevideo), Patrimonio Arqueológico: Colección Francisco Oliveras, Pieza 6.995, Probable colgante lítico; Museo Nacional de Antropología, Logros de la humanidad durante la prehistoria: catálogo de la exposición (2017), p. 21","source_display":"Museo Nacional de Antropología (Montevideo), Patrimonio Arqueológico: Colección Francisco Oliveras, Pieza 6.995, Probable colgante lítico; Museo Nacional de Antropología, Logros de la humanidad durante la prehistoria: catálogo de la exposición (2017), p. 21","date_citation_display":"MNA Logros de la humanidad catalogue p. 21; MNA specimen sheet, Oliveras 6.995","object_display":"Elongated elliptical blade of dark grey slate, 107 × 37 × 1 mm, shaped, smoothed, polished and burnished, with one small hole near its narrower end. Several old breaks across the body and the pierced end have been joined.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"barra del","display_name":"Arroyo de la Tuna slate blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MNAURUGUAY2017-001_MNAURUGUAY2017-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MNAURUGUAY2017-001_MNAURUGUAY2017-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"A dark grey slate blade shaped like an elongated leaf, lying horizontally, with a small round hole near its narrow left end, several mended cracks, and a museum number written in white ink.","credit":"Museo Nacional de Antropología, Montevideo; specimen sheet for Francisco Oliveras collection 6.995","source_page":"https://www.mna.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/124306/1/patrimonio-arqueologico---colgante-litico.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Arroyo de la Tuna slate blade, ground to a millimetre thick, with one small hole near its narrow end."},"slug":"mnauruguay2017-001-barra-del-arroyo-de-la-tuna-canelones-coastal-occupations"}