Lead in ancient peru: The curamba smelter and lead sling bullets

William E. Brooks; Luisa Vetter; Armando V. Farfán; David Dykstra

Lead in ancient peru: The curamba smelter and lead sling bullets

William E. Brooks, Luisa Vetter, Armando V. Farfán, David Dykstra

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Abstract

Since the 16th century, the Inca site of Curamba, in southern Peru, has been interpreted as a metallurgical center for processing silver ore. Yet, aside from the many shallow pits, interpreted as hornos for smelting silver, there was no physical evidence for the use of huayras or tocochimbos, which were the structures traditionally used for precontact silver smelting in the ancient Andes. Geochemical analyses (inductively coupled plasma) of scoria excavated from the hornos at Curamba indicate low Ag (

Original language	Spanish
Pages (from-to)	1356-1364
Number of pages	9
Journal	JOM
Volume	64
State	Published - 1 Nov 2012

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