Intensive pre-Incan metallurgy recorded by lake sediments from the Bolivian Andes

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5641, 2003, Pages 1893-1895

  Abbott, Mark B ^a   Wolfe, Alexander P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; METALLURGY; SILVER; SMELTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

METAL ARTIFACTS;

SEDIMENTS;

ANTIMONY; BISMUTH; LEAD; METAL; SILVER; TIN;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURE; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; METALLURGY; SILVER; SMELTING;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; LAKE SEDIMENT; METALLURGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; STRATIGRAPHY;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 0141868920     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1087806     Document Type: Article

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