Early central Andean metalworking from Mina Perdida, Peru

被引:21
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作者
Burger, RL
Gordon, RB
机构
[1] Yale Univ, Museum Nat Hist, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[2] Yale Univ, Dept Anthropol, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[3] Yale Univ, Dept Geol & Geophys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
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10.1126/science.282.5391.1108
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Copper and gold artifacts in contexts dated to similar to 3120 to 3020 carbon-14 years before the present (similar to 1410 to 1090 calendar years B.C.) recovered in excavations at Mina Perdida, Lurin 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 Chavin horizon, and that on the Peruvian coast the working of native copper preceded the production of smelted copper objects.
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页码:1108 / 1111
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