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Moche Copper Analyses: Early New World Metal Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Arnold M. Friedman ,
Edward Olsen  and
Junius B. Bird
Arnold M. Friedman
Affiliation:
Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Edward Olsen
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History
Junius B. Bird
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
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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.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 254 - 258
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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