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

Authors

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.v3i1.1377

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

Journal of Lithic Studies, Vol. 3, Nr. 1

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Published

15-Mar-2016

How to Cite

Ixer, R. A. F. F.-X. (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

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016)

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Book reviews

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