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The techniques employed to manufacture mollusk shell objects in pre-Hispanic Mexico have been little studied to date. This may in part to be attributed to the fact that, as in the case of the majority of precious materials, these pieces are found as already finished pieces in funerary or votive offerings in construction; the discovery of evidence of their production—such as rejected pieces, workshop waste, or discarded tools—is rare; only occasionally is such material found in trash deposits, construction fill, or sometimes where the shell objects were actually produced. Given this general scarcity of information, two research projects devoted to shell object manufacturing techniques have been conducted at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City. To overcome the lack of information stemming from the paucity of direct indicators of production, researchers have turned to experimental archaeology and the characterization and comparison of manufacturing traces. The present article describes the theoreticalmethodological foundations of these projects and presents the principal results obtained to date concerning shell pieces found in offerings in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan.

The Study of Shell Object Manufacturing Techniques from the Perspective of Experimental Archaeology and Work Traces