Book review: Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions

  • Robert A. F. F.-X. Ixer Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Keywords: book review, mining, quarrying, lithic studies, archaeology, archaeometry

Abstract


The high Andes is one of the world’s great metallogenic provinces having produced and still providing very significant amounts of copper, silver, tin and historically, of course, gold.  The Andean pre-Colombian metal mining tradition, clearly isolated from that of Eurasia, provides independent alternative examples of early, non-mechanised mining and its less tangible ‘sociopolitical, economic and symbolic dimensions’. 

Author Biography

Robert A. F. F.-X. Ixer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY, London, U.K.  Email: r.ixer@btinternet.com

References

Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions
edited by Nicholas Tripcevich and Kevin J. Vaughn
Springer, 2013, pp. 353. ISBN 978-1-4614-5199-0
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781461451990
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.v3i1.1377
Journal of Lithic Studies, Vol. 3, Nr. 1
Published
15-Mar-2016
How to Cite
Ixer, R. (2016). Book review: Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions. Journal of Lithic Studies, 3(1), 315-316. https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.v3i1.1377
Issue
Vol 3 No 1 (2016)
Section
Book reviews

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