Lago, Cardarelli, Ialongo 2024, fig. 5

Giancarlo Lago, Matteo Cianfoni, Carlos Montalvo Puente

Related article: Lago G., Cardarelli L., Ialongo N. 2024, CQArchaeo: a Python package for Cosine Quantogram Analysis and Monte Carlo simulations, «Archeologia e Calcolatori», 35.1, 215-232 (https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.35.1.2024.15)

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A) Replica of a bronze sickle broken during an experiment of weight-regulated fragmentation (from Lago et al. 2023); B) specimen of Ecuadorian ‘axe-money’ in arsenical copper alloy (AD 600-1532) from the Pre-Columbian Art Museum House, Quito (from Montalvo-Puente et al. 2023)

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a) Lago G., Cianfoni M., Scacchetti F., Pellegrini L., La Torre A. 2023, Breaking sickles for shaping money. Testing the accuracy of weight-based fragmentation, «Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports», 49, 103968 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103968); b) Montalvo-Puente C.E., Lago G., Cardarelli L., Pérez-Molina J.C. 2023, Money or ingots? Metrological research on pre-contact Ecuadorian “axe-monies”, «Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports», 49, 103976 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103976).

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