Moche Copper Analyses: Early New World Metal Technology
- 1 April 1972
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 37 (2) , 254-258
- https://doi.org/10.2307/278212
Abstract
Eighteen analyses are presented for 12 different Moche copper pedestal cups. Eight of the cups were made from naturally-occurring copper metal ore; the remaining 4 from copper obtained by smelting of complex oxidized ores. The use of both ore types suggests either a matter of convenience or technology in transition. In general, these people possessed a more advanced level of metallurgical technology than their utilization of primitive naturally-occurring copper metal implies.Keywords
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