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Science 28 May 1982:
Vol. 216. no. 4549, pp. 952 - 959
DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4549.952
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Batan Grande: A Prehistoric Metallurgical Center in Peru

Izumi Shimada 1, Stephen Epstein 2, and Alan K. Craig 3

1 Assistant professor of anthropology at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
2 Graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and research assistant at the Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104
3 Professor of geography at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton 33431

Recent archeological fieldwork on the north coast of Peru permits a preliminary reconstruction of a prill-extraction copper and copper alloy smelting process heretofore undocumented in the New World. The process was applied on a large scale during the late pre-Hispanic period. This study provides strong support for the claim that central Andean metallurgy constituted one of the major independent metallurgical traditions of the world.


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