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Ancient metalworking in South America: A 3000-year-old copper mask from the Argentinian Andes

dc.creatorCortes, Leticia Ines
dc.creatorScattolin, Maria Cristina
dc.date2017-06
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-06T18:27:01Z
dc.date.available2021-04-06T18:27:01Z
dc.identifierCortes, Leticia Ines; Scattolin, Maria Cristina; Ancient metalworking in South America: A 3000-year-old copper mask from the Argentinian Andes; Antiquity Trust; Antiquity; 91; 357; 6-2017; 688-700
dc.identifier0003-598X
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/39789
dc.identifier1745-1744
dc.identifierCONICET Digital
dc.identifierCONICET
dc.identifier.urihttp://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/39789
dc.descriptionMetallurgy in pre-Columbian America first developed in the Andes, and Peru has long been considered to be the initial point of origin. The recent discovery of an anthropomorphic copper mask in north-west Argentina, however, draws new attention to the southern Andes as a centre of early metalworking. Found in a funerary context c. 3000 BP, at a time of transition from mobile hunter-gatherer bands to agro-pastoral villages, the mask from Bordo Marcial shows that the Cajón Valley and its surrounding region was an important locus for copper metallurgy. To date, the mask is the oldest intentionally shaped copper object discovered in the Andes, and suggests that more than one region was involved in the origin of this technology.
dc.descriptionFil: Cortes, Leticia Ines. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Las Culturas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Las Culturas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Museo Etnográfico ; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: Scattolin, Maria Cristina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Museo Etnográfico ; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Las Culturas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Las Culturas; Argentina
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAntiquity Trust
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ancient-metalworking-in-south-america-a-3000yearold-copper-mask-from-the-argentinian-andes/80E3CFE81BC10CFFA5602230A16B40DF
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.15184/aqy.2017.28
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dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
dc.subject3000 BP
dc.subjectARGENTINA
dc.subjectMETALLURGY
dc.subjectPRE-HISPANIC
dc.subjectSOUTHERN ANDES
dc.subjectTECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectHistoria
dc.subjectHistoria y Arqueología
dc.subjectHUMANIDADES
dc.titleAncient metalworking in South America: A 3000-year-old copper mask from the Argentinian Andes
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