The Metallurgy of the Southern Coast of Peru

1 July 1949

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity

Vol. 15 (1) , 10-37
https://doi.org/10.2307/276954

Abstract

A study of the use of gold and silver by the ancient inhabitants of southern Peru and Bolivia has been made by Lothrop (1937). He found that in the region of the southern coast the available material from Paracas and Nasca was adequate, but that there was very little satisfactory material from the later periods, such as Ica. Many of the objects in museum collections that purport to be from Ica are of questionable origin, and many objects actually from Ica are thought to be from Lima, Moche, etc. This not only prevents a satisfactory investigation of the use of metals in Ica, but confuses a study of their use on the central and northern coasts.The present study is an attempt to supply more exact information about the use of metals in the vicinity of Nasca, Ica, and Chincha. Max Uhle made very careful excavations in the Chincha and Ica valleys in 1901, and in the region of Nasca in 1903.

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This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Towards Absolute Time: Guano Archaeology
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, 1948
Gold and Silver from Southern Peru and Bolivia.
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1937