An Introduction to Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions

Vaughn, Kevin J.; Tripcevich, Nicholas

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5200-3_1

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“…Ethnography indicates that the procurement of mineral materials is not simply a matter of mechanical practice within premodern communities but can involve metaphysical dimensionseven small-scale digging can involve communication and engagement with the world under the surface of the ground and its potentially dangerous powers (Boivin, 2004b;Vaughn & Tripcevich, 2013). In a sense, then, the procuring of copper and other mineral materials involved becoming more knowledgeable about the world beneath the surface of the ground and its weaving into the lived world of Neolithic people in a new manner.…”

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Copper Use, Cultural Change and Neolithization in North-Eastern Europe (c. 5500–1800 BC)

Nordqvist

Herva

2013

Eur. j. archaeol.

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In the context of northern Europe, copper use started early in eastern Fennoscandia (Finland and the Republic of Karelia, Russia), sometime after 4000 BC. This article explores this Stone Age copper use in eastern Fennoscandia in relation to broader cultural developments in the region between the adoption of pottery (c. 5500 BC) and the end of the Stone Age (c. 1800 BC). Stone Age copper use in north-eastern Europe has conventionally been understood in terms of technology or exchange, whereas this article suggests that the beginning of copper use was linked to more fundamental changes in the perception of, and engagement with, the material world. These changes were associated with the Neolithization of eastern Fennoscandia, which started earlier than has traditionally been thought. It is also argued that the adoption, use, and manipulation of new materials played an active role in the emergence of the Neolithic world in north-eastern Europe and beyond. Also, issues related to the Finno–Russian border dividing up eastern Fennoscandia and its effects on the study of early metal use and other prehistoric cultural processes are discussed.

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Section: Manipulating New Materialsmentioning

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Copper Use, Cultural Change and Neolithization in North-Eastern Europe (c. 5500–1800 BC)

Nordqvist

Herva

2013

Eur. j. archaeol.

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“…Generalmente, la investigación de la minería en los Andes, enmarcada en la economía doméstica o comunitaria, ha sido comparativamente pequeña. Con algunas excepciones (Graffam, Rivera y Carevič, 1996;González, 2004;Núñez et al, 2003;Núñez, 2006;Eerkens, Vaughn y Linares, 2009), nuestra imagen actual de la producción minera prehispánica en los Andes está sesgada fuertemente por el punto de vista de las economías centralizadas y controladas por el Estado (D'Altroy y Earle, 1985;Berthelot, 1986;Earle, 1994;Williams, 2000;Shimada y Wagner, 2001;Abbott y Wolfe, 2003;Lechtman y McFarlane, 2006;Goldstein y Shimada, 2007;Lechtman, 2007;Cruz y Vacher, 2008;Salazar, 2008;Salazar et al, 2010b;Van Buren y Presta, 2010;Cantarutti, 2013;Schultze, 2013;Vaughn y Tripcevich, 2013).…”

Section: Minería Y Especializaciones Artesanales De Pequeña Escalaunclassified

Comunidades mineras prehispánicas de pequeña escala y sus ventajas económicas y logísticas derivadas de su conectividad con el Qhapaq Ñan, desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile

Garrido¹

2017

Bol. Antropol.

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“…1500 BC-400 AD) to the Inca Horizon (ca. 1400-1540 AD) [2][3][4]. Mining districts in the Atacama Desert were exploited by the Incas from the mid-15th century, who kept their technology and reorganised mining activity [5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for the Study of Archaeological Copper Minerals through the Case Study of Pukara de Turi

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Northern Chile is home to the world’s largest copper ore deposits, which have been exploited for thousands of years by different groups, at varying scales and for different purposes. In this context, it is important to develop new protocols to characterise the mineralogical variability of archaeological copper ores. A comprehensive and representative methodology in the analysis of minerals, the application of non-destructive analytical techniques, and the combination of insights from geological, archaeological and local knowledge are key to developing a copper mineral repository of the Atacama Desert area. Geochemical analyses were applied to the study of 568 samples from the archaeological site Pukara de Turi, with different techniques such as micro-XRF, XRD, QEMSCAN, Raman spectroscopy and technological studies. This exhaustive analysis allowed for the recognition of two mineralogical associations: atacamite/brochantite (99%) and azurite/chrysocolla (1%). The study of various minerals allows data to be interpreted more reliably and to trace the likely geological sources of these minerals. The azurite/chrysocolla samples appear to belong to the same mineral association found in the Cerro Verde district, which is probably the source of these samples. The atacamite/brochantite samples appear to come from more than one geological source, including, but not limited to, Chuquicamata-Radomiro Tomic and El Abra-Conchi.

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An Introduction to Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Copper Use, Cultural Change and Neolithization in North-Eastern Europe (c. 5500–1800 BC)

Copper Use, Cultural Change and Neolithization in North-Eastern Europe (c. 5500–1800 BC)

Comunidades mineras prehispánicas de pequeña escala y sus ventajas económicas y logísticas derivadas de su conectividad con el Qhapaq Ñan, desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile

Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for the Study of Archaeological Copper Minerals through the Case Study of Pukara de Turi

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