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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Resumen

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 (
Idioma originalEspañol
Páginas (desde-hasta)1356-1364
Número de páginas9
PublicaciónJOM
Volumen64
EstadoPublicada - 1 nov. 2012

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