Welding Brazing and Soldering of Gold and Silver by the Moche Tombs "Señor de Sipán" and "Señora de Cao"

Roberto Cesareo, Angel Bustamante, Régulo Franco Jordán, Arabel Fernandez, Soraia Azeredo, Ricardo T. Lopes, Walter Alva, Luis Chero, Antonio Brunetti, Giovanni E. Gigante, Stefano Ridolfi

Abstract

About 200 gold and silver funerary ornaments from the Moche tombs "Señor de Sipán" and "Señora de Cao" were analyzed to determine their metallurgic characteristics. Of particular interest was the question about the gold-silver joining process. To this aim, following methods were employed, all based on the use of X-rays.

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