The Organization of Mining in Nasca During the Early Intermediate Period: Recent Evidence from Mina Primavera

Urban Lithics: The Role of Stone Tools in the Indus Civilization and at Harappa

“…In many Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and Inka contexts, quarry areas for building materials and tool construction, and the resultant products, were under some degree of imperial control (Cantarutti 2013;Degryse et al 2009;Harrell and Storemyr 2009;Jennings et al 2013;Kelany et al 2009;Lollet et al 2008;McCallum 2009;Ogburn 2011Ogburn , 2013Peacock and Maxfield 2007;Teather 2011;Torrence 1984;Contreras 2011, 2013;Weisberber 1983). Evidence for such control takes the form of (1) organized work areas, including storage facilities (Cantarutti 2013;Harrell and Storemyr 2009;Storemyr et al 2010); (2) transportation routes (Harrell and Storemyr 2009;Heldal 2009;Kelany et al 2009;Ogburn 2013;Storemyr et al 2010); (3) the scale and organization of production (Heldal 2009;Salazar et al 2013); (4) widespread distribution of finished products (McCallum 2009); (5) organized villages for workers (Harrell and Storemyr 2009;Peacock and Maxfield 2007); and (6) state-sponsored ritual in and around work areas (Vaughn et al 2013). Less evidence, however, exists in other areas of the world for such strict top-down management (i.e., Cobb 1988Cobb , 2000Horowitz 2015Horowitz , 2017Horowitz , 2018King 2000;Horowitz, this volume).…”

La Arqueología De La Minería en El Centro-Sur Andino: Balance Y Perspectivas

“…En efecto, en las zonas de Ica, Palpa y Nasca se han identificado una serie de minas prehistóricas de óxido de hierro y de cobre que estuvieron en explotación al menos desde el período Intermedio Temprano hasta momentos prehispánicos tardíos (Vaughn et al 2007(Vaughn et al , 2013a(Vaughn et al y 2013bEerkens et al 2009;Stöllner et al 2013;Van Gijseghem et al 2011. A excepción de la Mina Primavera, sin embargo, y tal como sucede con las minas conocidas para la costa norte del Perú, casi todos los sitios mineros identificados en el área Nasca aún están a la espera de investigaciones y descripciones más sistemáticas.…”

In situ evidence for Paleoindian hematite quarrying at the Powars II site (48PL330), Wyoming

“…The Powars II site, located in the foothills of the southern Rocky Mountains in Wyoming ( 1 , 2 ), is one of five hematite quarries identified in the indigenous archaeological record of the Americas, along with two definitive quarries in Quintana Roo, Mexico ( 3 ), San Ramon 15 near the coast of northern Chile ( 4 ), and Mina Primavera in the Ingenio Valley of Peru ( 5 ) ( Fig. 1 ).…”