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Science 6 November 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5391, pp. 1108 - 1111
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5391.1108
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Early Central Andean Metalworking from Mina Perdida, Peru
Richard L. Burger,
Robert B. Gordon
Copper and gold artifacts in contexts dated to ~3120 to 3020 carbon-14 years before the present (~1410 to 1090 calendar years B.C.) recovered in excavations at Mina Perdida, Lurín Valley, Peru, show that artisans hammered native metals into thin foils, in
some cases with intermediate anneals. They gilded copper artifacts by
attaching gold foil. The artifacts show that fundamental elements of
the Andean metallurgical tradition were developed before the Chavín horizon, and that on the Peruvian coast the working of native copper preceded the production of smelted copper objects.
R. L. Burger, Peabody Museum of Natural History and
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, Post Office Box 208277, New Haven, CT 06520-8277, USA. E-mail: richard.burger{at}yale.edu.
R. B. Gordon, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale
University, Post Office Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA.
E-mail: robert.gordon{at}yale.edu
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