Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)

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Autor(a) principal: Costa, Mafalda
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Barrulas, Pedro, Lopes, Maria da Conceição, Barreira, João, de Jesus, Maria da Piedade, da Silva Domingos, Sónia, Vandenabeele, Peter, Mirão, José
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34310
https://doi.org/Costa, M., Barrulas, P., Lopes, M.d.C. et al. Personal adornments in West-Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 22 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01723-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01723-6
Resumo: A mustard-gold-colored talc bead was recovered during the 2014 excavation campaign carried out in Lumbu (Mbanza Kongo, Angola) together with the nineteenth-century glass trade beads imported from Bohemia and Venice. Results from this multianalytical and minimally invasive study suggest that this bead may have been brought to the kingdom’s capital by means of an established intra-kingdom trade network or as an offering intended for the king or a member of the nobility. However, it was undoubtedly manufactured within the Kongo kingdom using talc sources known by the local population. As such, this talc bead constitutes the first evidence of local production of personal adornment objects in the Kongo kingdom and one of the first examples of craft specialization for personal adornment purposes in central and southern Africa since pre-historic times.
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title Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)
spellingShingle Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)
Costa, Mafalda
Talc bead
Personal adornment
Kongo kingdom
Trace elements
LA-ICP-MS
title_short Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)
title_full Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)
title_fullStr Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)
title_full_unstemmed Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)
title_sort Personal adornments in West‑Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola)
author Costa, Mafalda
author_facet Costa, Mafalda
Barrulas, Pedro
Lopes, Maria da Conceição
Barreira, João
de Jesus, Maria da Piedade
da Silva Domingos, Sónia
Vandenabeele, Peter
Mirão, José
author_role author
author2 Barrulas, Pedro
Lopes, Maria da Conceição
Barreira, João
de Jesus, Maria da Piedade
da Silva Domingos, Sónia
Vandenabeele, Peter
Mirão, José
author2_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Costa, Mafalda
Barrulas, Pedro
Lopes, Maria da Conceição
Barreira, João
de Jesus, Maria da Piedade
da Silva Domingos, Sónia
Vandenabeele, Peter
Mirão, José
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Talc bead
Personal adornment
Kongo kingdom
Trace elements
LA-ICP-MS
topic Talc bead
Personal adornment
Kongo kingdom
Trace elements
LA-ICP-MS
description A mustard-gold-colored talc bead was recovered during the 2014 excavation campaign carried out in Lumbu (Mbanza Kongo, Angola) together with the nineteenth-century glass trade beads imported from Bohemia and Venice. Results from this multianalytical and minimally invasive study suggest that this bead may have been brought to the kingdom’s capital by means of an established intra-kingdom trade network or as an offering intended for the king or a member of the nobility. However, it was undoubtedly manufactured within the Kongo kingdom using talc sources known by the local population. As such, this talc bead constitutes the first evidence of local production of personal adornment objects in the Kongo kingdom and one of the first examples of craft specialization for personal adornment purposes in central and southern Africa since pre-historic times.
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https://doi.org/Costa, M., Barrulas, P., Lopes, M.d.C. et al. Personal adornments in West-Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 22 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01723-6
http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34310
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01723-6
url http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34310
https://doi.org/Costa, M., Barrulas, P., Lopes, M.d.C. et al. Personal adornments in West-Central Africa—the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 22 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01723-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01723-6
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