Book review: Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.v3i1.1377Keywords:
book review, mining, quarrying, lithic studies, archaeology, archaeometryAbstract
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’.
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
Published
15-Mar-2016
Issue
Section
Book reviews
How to Cite
Book review: Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions. (2016). Journal of Lithic Studies, 3(1), 315-316. https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.v3i1.1377