Turquoise is one of the mineral deposits, isolated from the relatively limited geographical area in the southwestern United States, some - a little - can be found in Mexico, there are a number of deposits in western South America. We should focus on those in the United States Prehistoric Indians mined turquoise and turned into jewelry - primarily drilled beads and other hanging ornaments. However, since the archaeological discoveries Zain on Shell and other rocks, which means that it may have been used with turquoise and polished wood ear (wood would have deteriorated). Evidence of large-scale mining in prehistoric times and is found in several areas: in Cerillos SH and mountainous areas in New Mexico, Kingman and Morenci regions of Arizona and the Conejos area of Colorado. Turquoise jewelry found in southern Mexico, and dug in the hills east
of the Mississippi has been identified as coming from New Mexico
Cerillos mining. This article focuses on sites south-west of mining.
Turquoise was dominant in the jewelry is, for example several thousand
pieces were found in Chaco Canyon. It's not only the task of finding jewelry. And spiny oyster shell Spondylus princeps coming from only one part in the Western Hemisphere - from the coast of Baja California. This shell is found in abundance in archeological excavations of the Anasazi, Hohokam and Mogollón southwest of the desert. Has also been found in fossils of the same hill east where it was found turquoise. |  |
