Presencias silenciosas y silenciadads. Presencia femenina en la metalurgia andina prehispánica (Silence and silenced presences. Women's Presence in pre-Hispanic Andean Metallurgy)

Description

Public Talk to the weekly Lecture Series at the 'Casa del Alabado' Museum of pre-Columbian Art, in Quito-Ecuador. The talk presented a pioneer research and original reading of the set of Jama Coaque female figures who display a little "box" of jewellery on their lap. These under researched ceramic figures produced by one of the most sophisticated goldsmithing cultures of ancient times, are one of the very few explicit signs of the link between women and metals. As such, they may hold the key to change the scholarly long-held and widespread assumption across the world that metalworking is a "male" activity only.

Period	20 Nov 2025
Degree of Recognition	International