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Andean Value Systems and the Development of Prehistoric Metallurgy

Lechtman, Heather·1984·Technology and Culture

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The rich development of metallurgical technology that arose and was sustained in the New World prior to the Spanish invasion in the 16th century took place in the Andean zone of western South America in that area which is today Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Although Andean peoples supported a highly sophisticated metallurgical tradition with the production of a broad range of metals and metal alloys, little interest or attention has been paid to Andean metallurgy, perhaps because archaeologists and historians cannot boast of a age or an iron age as characteristic of New World prehistory. Iron metallurgy was never developed in the Andes. Although both ancient varieties of bronze were invented there-the alloys of copper and arsenic and of copper and tin-and tin bronze was widely used and disseminated throughout its vast empire by the Inca dynasty, nevertheless these metals did not have the same impact on Andean civilization that they had among peoples of Europe and the ancient Near East.

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Authors: Lechtman, H.
Corresponding author: Lechtman, Heather
Venue: Technology and Culture
Publisher: JSTOR
Published: 1984-01
Volume: 25
Issue: 1
Pages: 1
ISSN: 0040-165X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.2307/3104667
OpenAlex: W2086049163
Cited by: 216
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 10
FWCI: 9.61
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Technology and Culture (publishedVersion)
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Archeology › Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Latin American history and culture
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Keywords: Andean metallurgy, prehistoric metallurgy, Inca civilization, tin bronze, iron metallurgy, alloys, Andean civilization

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Andean Value Systems and the Development of Prehistoric Metallurgy

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