The Style, Technology and Organization of Sicán Mining and Metallurgy, Northern Peru: Insights from Holistic Study
El Estilo, Tecnología y Organización de la Minería y Metalurgia Sicán, Norte del Perú: Visiones desde un Estudio Holístico 3
Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig
Prehistoric Metal Mining in Britain: The Study of Cobble Stone Mining Tools Based on Artefact Study, Ethnography and Experimentation
Minería Prehistórica en Gran Bretaña: El Estudio de Herramientas Mineras Líticas a Partir de Estudios Artefactuales, Etnografía y Experimentación 33
Simon Timberlake and Brenda Craddock
El documento describe varios problemas ambientales en la comunidad y estado de Zacatecas, México. Estos incluyen contaminación del aire y agua por ladrilleras, falta de tratamiento de aguas negras, pérdida de cosechas por vientos fuertes, tala ilegal de árboles, basureros sobrecargados, daño ambiental de la minería, crecimiento urbano no planificado, sobreexplotación de acuíferos y escasez proyectada de agua dulce para 2025.
Minas y Mineros: Presencia de Metales en Sedimentos y Restos Humanos al Sur de la Sierra Gorda de Querétaro en México
Mines and Miners: Metals in Sediments and Human Remains from Southern Sierra Gorda, Querétaro, Mexico 161
Elizabeth Mejía Pérez Campos y Alberto Juan Herrera Muñoz
Óxidos de Manganeso en el Extremo Norte de Chile: Abastecimiento, Producción y Movilidad del Color Negro durante el Periodo Arcaico
Manganese Oxide in Northernmost Chile: Black Color Procurement, Production and Mobility during the Archaic Period. 143
Marcela Sepúlveda, Daniela Valenzuela, Lorena Cornejo, Hugo Lienqueo y Hélène. Rousselière
Este documento revisa la evidencia arqueológica de la minería incaica del cobre en la región de Atacama y el altiplano sur de Tarapacá en el norte de Chile. Los autores argumentan que bajo el dominio inca, la minería del cobre jugó un papel esencial en la reorganización económica de la región y fue el eje alrededor del cual el Tawantinsuyu reorganizó los espacios sociales y sagrados. Se reconstruye el paisaje minero-metalúrgico
El documento describe las investigaciones arqueológicas realizadas en Mina Primavera, una mina de hematita ubicada en la costa sur del Perú. Las excavaciones mostraron que la mina fue explotada principalmente entre los períodos Intermedio Temprano y Medio para extraer hematita, la cual se usaba como pigmento y en ofrendas. Se encontraron herramientas de piedra y madera, restos de alimentos, cerámicas y textiles que datan desde el Formativo hasta el Intermedio Tardío. Los análisis de carbono 14 indican que
El documento presenta las reflexiones de Álvaro Uribe Vélez sobre el escenario político regional. Resalta el surgimiento de las economías emergentes y el papel creciente de América Latina en el contexto global. También destaca las posibilidades y desafíos de la región, como la reducción de la pobreza y el cierre de brechas sociales, pero advierte sobre riesgos económicos, sociales, ambientales y geopolíticos. Finalmente, analiza el futuro geopolítico de América Latina considerando dos modelos polític
Prehistoric Metal Mining in Britain: The Study of Cobble Stone Mining Tools Based on Artefact Study, Ethnography and Experimentation
Minería Prehistórica en Gran Bretaña: El Estudio de Herramientas Mineras Líticas a Partir de Estudios Artefactuales, Etnografía y Experimentación 33
Simon Timberlake and Brenda Craddock
El documento describe varios problemas ambientales en la comunidad y estado de Zacatecas, México. Estos incluyen contaminación del aire y agua por ladrilleras, falta de tratamiento de aguas negras, pérdida de cosechas por vientos fuertes, tala ilegal de árboles, basureros sobrecargados, daño ambiental de la minería, crecimiento urbano no planificado, sobreexplotación de acuíferos y escasez proyectada de agua dulce para 2025.
Minas y Mineros: Presencia de Metales en Sedimentos y Restos Humanos al Sur de la Sierra Gorda de Querétaro en México
Mines and Miners: Metals in Sediments and Human Remains from Southern Sierra Gorda, Querétaro, Mexico 161
Elizabeth Mejía Pérez Campos y Alberto Juan Herrera Muñoz
Óxidos de Manganeso en el Extremo Norte de Chile: Abastecimiento, Producción y Movilidad del Color Negro durante el Periodo Arcaico
Manganese Oxide in Northernmost Chile: Black Color Procurement, Production and Mobility during the Archaic Period. 143
Marcela Sepúlveda, Daniela Valenzuela, Lorena Cornejo, Hugo Lienqueo y Hélène. Rousselière
Este documento revisa la evidencia arqueológica de la minería incaica del cobre en la región de Atacama y el altiplano sur de Tarapacá en el norte de Chile. Los autores argumentan que bajo el dominio inca, la minería del cobre jugó un papel esencial en la reorganización económica de la región y fue el eje alrededor del cual el Tawantinsuyu reorganizó los espacios sociales y sagrados. Se reconstruye el paisaje minero-metalúrgico
El documento describe las investigaciones arqueológicas realizadas en Mina Primavera, una mina de hematita ubicada en la costa sur del Perú. Las excavaciones mostraron que la mina fue explotada principalmente entre los períodos Intermedio Temprano y Medio para extraer hematita, la cual se usaba como pigmento y en ofrendas. Se encontraron herramientas de piedra y madera, restos de alimentos, cerámicas y textiles que datan desde el Formativo hasta el Intermedio Tardío. Los análisis de carbono 14 indican que
El documento presenta las reflexiones de Álvaro Uribe Vélez sobre el escenario político regional. Resalta el surgimiento de las economías emergentes y el papel creciente de América Latina en el contexto global. También destaca las posibilidades y desafíos de la región, como la reducción de la pobreza y el cierre de brechas sociales, pero advierte sobre riesgos económicos, sociales, ambientales y geopolíticos. Finalmente, analiza el futuro geopolítico de América Latina considerando dos modelos polític
Dokumen tersebut merangkum tentang perangkat Emotiv EPOC, yaitu headset yang mendeteksi aktivitas otak dan gerakan kepala untuk mengontrol permainan komputer. Perangkat ini dapat mendeteksi berbagai jenis gerakan otak, ekspresi wajah, dan emosi melalui sensor-sensor yang dipasang di kepala. Informasi hasil deteksi kemudian diterjemahkan menjadi perintah input untuk permainan melalui software khusus.
El taller tuvo como objetivo recabar información sobre un estudiante con discapacidad para planificar acciones que atiendan sus necesidades y comprometer a su familia. Se llevó a cabo un "Lonche con Luana" en su hogar el 24 de septiembre de 2014 a las 5 pm, donde se presentó información a la mamá, papá e hijos, se repartieron materiales y se concluyó compartiendo un lonche preparado por Luana.
Precolumbian Raw-Material Exploitation in Southern Peru-Structures and Perspectives
Explotación de Materias Primas Precolombinas en el Sur de Perú-Estructuras y Perspectivas 105
Thomas Stöllner, Markus Reindel, Guntram Gassman, Benedikt Gräfingholt and Johny Isla Cuadrado
Este documento resume las principales tendencias globales en educación superior identificadas por la UNESCO. Explica que la masificación, urbanización y crecimiento de la clase media han impulsado un aumento en la matrícula universitaria a nivel mundial. También destaca que la globalización ha generado una mayor movilidad de estudiantes internacionales, aunque el acceso sigue siendo desigual. Otras tendencias incluyen las dificultades de financiamiento de universidades públicas, la privatización de la educación y el impacto en la calidad y
Pre-Hispanic Mining Ergology of Northern Chile: An Archaeological Perspective
Ergología Minera Prehispánica del Norte de Chile: Una Perspectiva Arqueológica 61
Valentina Figueroa, Diego Salazar, Hernán Salinas, Paz Núñez-Regueiro and Germán Manríquez
hoja de trabajo previo libro :"casi medio año"Erika Huachina
Este documento proporciona una hoja de trabajo para preparar una reseña de un libro. Incluye preguntas sobre detalles del autor, como Mónica Brozon de México y sus obras publicadas previamente. También pregunta sobre ideas principales del libro, como personajes y sucesos importantes. Pregunta sobre la opinión personal del lector, incluyendo partes favoritas y menos favoritas. Solicita ejemplos del libro para fundamentar la opinión. Finalmente, pide una recomendación y juicio sobre el libro.
Este documento presenta la propuesta de creación de un modelo de Consultoría Empresarial de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander en Cúcuta. Describe el sector empresarial de Cúcuta, su composición, comportamiento y necesidad de fortalecimiento. Propone que la Consultoría Empresarial ofrezca orientación y capacitación a las empresas locales para mejorar su competitividad. Los estudiantes de Administración de Empresas liderarán la Consultoría, aplicando sus conocimientos y desarrollando habilidades profesionales.
Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple and Pixar. He was born in 1955 in San Francisco to an unwed graduate student and a professor. Jobs dropped out of college but went on to revolutionize industries like personal computing, animation, music, phones, and digital publishing. He was married with three children and instilled a strong work ethic, waking up at the same time daily and wearing the same clothes to avoid decision fatigue. Considered one of the most influential entrepreneurs of the modern era, Jobs drove innovation and inspired the motto "Think Different."
This document outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Vice President Education position in Toastmasters. It discusses tasks before, during, and after club meetings including setting member goals, scheduling education sessions, and completing records. It also covers responsibilities outside meetings such as attending executive committee meetings, networking with other VPEs, and preparing a successor. The document provides resources and templates to help VPEs fulfill their duties and suggests attending training to be well prepared for the role.
The document discusses skarn deposits, which are metallic deposits associated with skarn rocks formed by the chemical alteration of carbonate rocks like dolostone and limestone. It defines skarn and its classifications, discusses associated mineral deposits, and highlights potential occurrences in Nigeria. Specifically, it notes that the Younger Granites Complex and marble-bearing schist belts may host skarn occurrences in Nigeria rich in iron, copper, gold, and molybdenum deposits. The document also presents a case study of the Antamina copper-zinc skarn deposit in Peru to illustrate deposit geology and mineralization.
The document summarizes the mineralogical and textural evolution of manganese mineralization in western Rhodope massif in northern Greece. It finds that economic manganese oxide deposits formed through weathering of hydrothermal veins related to Oligocene magmatism. At Kato Nevrokopi, progressive weathering of primary veins containing rhodochrosite and other minerals resulted in formation of supergene manganese oxide minerals like todorokite and nsutite in veins and cavities. The mineral paragenesis records the progressive oxidation of the deposits from primary carbonates to less hydrated manganese oxides over time.
The prospecting and mining of base metal in India
dates back to 3000 B.C. All the base metal deposit of India has
surface manifestations in various forms. From 19th century to the
middle of the present century, certain European companies
started a modern phase of base metal exploration and
development. Earlier, the search for base metal was confined to
the close study of surface features. In 1940 ground geophysical
survey work has been introduced in order to search the mineral
deposits. The total world production of lead and zinc metals are
about 3.9 and 11.4 million tonnes respectively in 2009. The
leading producing countries for lead is China (41% of world
production), followed by Australia (15%), USA (10%), Peru (8%)
and Mexico (4%). The Indian production of lead and zinc ore is
7.10 million tonnes in the year 2009-10, it includes 136095 tonnes
of lead concentrate and 1224077 tonnes zinc concentrate. In
India, the Western Indian Craton (Rajasthan) is the main
provider of base metal to the country. It contributes nearly 85%
of the estimated lead and zinc. In Western India Craton, the main
metallotect of lead and zinc from an elongated NE – SW trending
polygon, this covers an area of about 20000 sq. km. It comprises
three metalliferous belts mainly, the Pur-Banera belt, the
Rajpura-Dariba- Bethumni belt, and the Sawar belt and two
metalliferous enclaves namely; the Agucha and the Kayar
enclave.
The 20 km. long crescent shaped, Rajpura-Dariba-Bethumni
belt striking N-S to NNE-SSW. The ancient mining and smelting
activities have been noticed at both ends of the belts. Towards the
southernmost part of the belt, the typical gossan is exposed in the
form of hill. B.C. Gupta, Geological survey of India (G.S.I) first
reported Dariba – Bethumni belt, in the year 1934. The
systematic exploration of the belt was initiated by G.S.I in 1962
and continuing till present. In the Rajpura-Dariba-Bethumni belt
Rajpura and Dariba blocks are under active production since
1983, whereas in the Sindesar Khurd block the production was
started in 2007, under the ownership of Hindustan Zinc Limited
of Vedanta Group. Recently the exploration activity is going on in
the Sonariya Khera block, Chittor block and Bethumni block
under the possession of Hindustan Zinc Limited.
This document describes a study analyzing pre-Columbian metal artifacts from northern Peru using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF). The study aims to differentiate between gold alloys, gilded copper, and copper-gold mixtures, as well as silver alloys and silvered copper. EDXRF is a non-destructive technique that analyzes the surface of artifacts. By measuring ratios of peaks for elements like gold, silver, copper, and comparing to standards, the researchers can determine the composition and layered structure of the artifacts. This method was tested on standards and applied to artifacts from cultures like Moche and Sicán dated between 1200 BC to 1375 AD.
The study examines the Mn-oxide mineralization at Kato Nevrokopi, Macedonia, northern Greece using EPMA and SEM to better understand controls on formation. Todorokite, nsutite, birnessite, and chalcophanite were analyzed from different localities representing varying weathering conditions. The chemistry and textures of the Mn-oxides indicate they formed under changing pH, oxidation state, climate, and water table fluctuations during weathering. Host rock lithology and protore mineral composition also influenced the development of late-stage hypogene and early supergene Mn-oxide assemblages through controlling base metal, alkali, and alkaline earth mobilities.
This document provides an introduction and overview for a course on Natural Resources Engineering. The course will cover topics related to identifying and analyzing different natural resource and energy sources, including oil, gas, mining, and renewable energy. It will evaluate geophysical properties, stability concepts, and environmental mitigation techniques. The course is divided into four chapters that will cover initiation and challenges in the field, geosciences concepts, fundamentals of rock mechanics from a natural resources perspective, and renewable energy and environmental mitigation. Students will be evaluated based on a case study, final exam, and course expectations questions.
Development of copper technology in ancient indiaPrachya Adhyayan
1) Copper was widely used in ancient India from as early as the 5th millennium BC based on evidence from sites like Mehrgarh and Nal.
2) During the Indus civilization between 2600-1900 BC, copper, bronze, and other metals like lead, silver, and gold were commonly used to make vessels, tools, weapons, and ornaments as seen at major sites.
3) After the Indus civilization, copper use continued and spread to other parts of India as seen in artifacts from late Harappan sites as well as Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites across the subcontinent.
La Arena and Alizar are porphyry-type Cu-Au-(Mo) deposits with associated Calaorco and Vanessa highsulfidation
epithermal mineralizations, respectively. In this study, we conducted multiple conventional
geochronologic analyses on samples from La Arena district, with the objective to obtain precise a temporal
relationship among porphyry emplacement, hydrothermal alterations, cooling, exhumation history and preservation,
together with published age data for the district.
A precursor quartz–diorite pluton and a late–mineral andesite porphyry bracketed the mineralization in the La
Arena and Alizar porphyry deposits. Zircon U-Pb dating of these intrusive rocks display markedly concordant
ages, with emplacement beginning and ending at 26.50 ± 0.23 to 25.36 ± 0.07 Ma at La Arena, and at 26.47 ±
0.08 to 25.30 ± 0.07 Ma at Alizar. 40Ar/39Ar chronologic data for hydrothermal biotite from the potassic zone
ranges from 25.97 ± 0.16 to 25.73 ± 0.16 Ma in the Alizar, and hypogene alunite from the advanced argillic
alteration yield an age of 25.66 ± 0.15 Ma in the Vanessa. The weighted mean apatite (U–Th)/He ages of the
porphyry intrusions of the La Arena and Alizar range from 24.26 ± 0.56 to 23.42 ± 0.37 Ma.
These geochronologic data reveal that the porphyry systems were emplaced intermittently for at least 1.2 m.y.
during the late Oligocene (26.5 – 25.3 Ma). The porphyry intrusions would have been uplifted from its depth of
formation at ~ 2 km suggested by telescoped and a short time period (0.07 m.y.; 40Ar/39Ar ages) between
porphyries and associated high-sulfidation epithermal events. The cooling history from zircon crystallization at
800 ◦C to thermal collapse at 75 ◦C (apatite helium close temperature) lasted ~ 2.5 m.y. in the ore-systems. The
thermal collapse occurred coeval with the Inca IV orogeny (~24 Ma), period of rapid uplift and exhumation in
northern Peru (0.24 km/m.y.; (U-Th)/He age-elevation spectrum). If exhumation continued at the rate of 0.24
km/m.y. unroof of the ore-deposits lasted 5 m.y. (24–19 Ma). Since their exposure at ~ 19 Ma, these ore deposits
were subjected to weathering and oxidation during 2.12 m.y. It is thus estimated that approximately 500-m
thickness of materials have been removed from the Alizar and La Arena during uplift and erosion, including a
large volume of ore. Subsequent volcanic activity occurred during the Quechua I orogeny (~17 Ma) at ca. 16.88
Ma, leading to burial and partially preservation of these ore deposits.
This document provides an overview of introductory mining concepts through several sections:
1) It outlines how mining has contributed to civilization by supplying basic resources and traces the history of mining parallel to cultural eras defined by minerals.
2) Terminology related to mining is defined, including classifications of ores and minerals.
3) Key events in the advancement of mining technology from the earliest surface mining to modern continuous miners are highlighted.
4) The typical stages in the life of a mine from initial prospecting to exploitation and eventual reclamation are described.
5) Unit operations involved in the production cycle from rock breakage to material handling are briefly introduced.
The excavation of the Mayiladumparai site in Tamil Nadu yielded early iron finds and two radiocarbon dates. Samples from 104 cm and 130 cm depth were dated to 1615 BCE and 2172 BCE, making them some of the earliest iron dates in India. Ferrous artifacts from undated contexts were analyzed using portable X-ray fluorescence, identifying their iron composition and trace elements. The analyses provide insights into the early use of iron technology at the site and archaeological research was initiated under Prof. Sharada Srinivasan.
Mineralization of Rare Earths, Platinum and Gold in a Sedimentary Deposit, Fo...CrimsonPublishersAMMS
Mineralization of Rare Earths, Platinum and Gold in a Sedimentary Deposit, Found Using an Indirect Method of Exploration by Eleazar Salinas-Rodríguez in Aspects in Mining & Mineral Science
Dokumen tersebut merangkum tentang perangkat Emotiv EPOC, yaitu headset yang mendeteksi aktivitas otak dan gerakan kepala untuk mengontrol permainan komputer. Perangkat ini dapat mendeteksi berbagai jenis gerakan otak, ekspresi wajah, dan emosi melalui sensor-sensor yang dipasang di kepala. Informasi hasil deteksi kemudian diterjemahkan menjadi perintah input untuk permainan melalui software khusus.
El taller tuvo como objetivo recabar información sobre un estudiante con discapacidad para planificar acciones que atiendan sus necesidades y comprometer a su familia. Se llevó a cabo un "Lonche con Luana" en su hogar el 24 de septiembre de 2014 a las 5 pm, donde se presentó información a la mamá, papá e hijos, se repartieron materiales y se concluyó compartiendo un lonche preparado por Luana.
Precolumbian Raw-Material Exploitation in Southern Peru-Structures and Perspectives
Explotación de Materias Primas Precolombinas en el Sur de Perú-Estructuras y Perspectivas 105
Thomas Stöllner, Markus Reindel, Guntram Gassman, Benedikt Gräfingholt and Johny Isla Cuadrado
Este documento resume las principales tendencias globales en educación superior identificadas por la UNESCO. Explica que la masificación, urbanización y crecimiento de la clase media han impulsado un aumento en la matrícula universitaria a nivel mundial. También destaca que la globalización ha generado una mayor movilidad de estudiantes internacionales, aunque el acceso sigue siendo desigual. Otras tendencias incluyen las dificultades de financiamiento de universidades públicas, la privatización de la educación y el impacto en la calidad y
Pre-Hispanic Mining Ergology of Northern Chile: An Archaeological Perspective
Ergología Minera Prehispánica del Norte de Chile: Una Perspectiva Arqueológica 61
Valentina Figueroa, Diego Salazar, Hernán Salinas, Paz Núñez-Regueiro and Germán Manríquez
hoja de trabajo previo libro :"casi medio año"Erika Huachina
Este documento proporciona una hoja de trabajo para preparar una reseña de un libro. Incluye preguntas sobre detalles del autor, como Mónica Brozon de México y sus obras publicadas previamente. También pregunta sobre ideas principales del libro, como personajes y sucesos importantes. Pregunta sobre la opinión personal del lector, incluyendo partes favoritas y menos favoritas. Solicita ejemplos del libro para fundamentar la opinión. Finalmente, pide una recomendación y juicio sobre el libro.
Este documento presenta la propuesta de creación de un modelo de Consultoría Empresarial de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander en Cúcuta. Describe el sector empresarial de Cúcuta, su composición, comportamiento y necesidad de fortalecimiento. Propone que la Consultoría Empresarial ofrezca orientación y capacitación a las empresas locales para mejorar su competitividad. Los estudiantes de Administración de Empresas liderarán la Consultoría, aplicando sus conocimientos y desarrollando habilidades profesionales.
Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple and Pixar. He was born in 1955 in San Francisco to an unwed graduate student and a professor. Jobs dropped out of college but went on to revolutionize industries like personal computing, animation, music, phones, and digital publishing. He was married with three children and instilled a strong work ethic, waking up at the same time daily and wearing the same clothes to avoid decision fatigue. Considered one of the most influential entrepreneurs of the modern era, Jobs drove innovation and inspired the motto "Think Different."
This document outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Vice President Education position in Toastmasters. It discusses tasks before, during, and after club meetings including setting member goals, scheduling education sessions, and completing records. It also covers responsibilities outside meetings such as attending executive committee meetings, networking with other VPEs, and preparing a successor. The document provides resources and templates to help VPEs fulfill their duties and suggests attending training to be well prepared for the role.
The document discusses skarn deposits, which are metallic deposits associated with skarn rocks formed by the chemical alteration of carbonate rocks like dolostone and limestone. It defines skarn and its classifications, discusses associated mineral deposits, and highlights potential occurrences in Nigeria. Specifically, it notes that the Younger Granites Complex and marble-bearing schist belts may host skarn occurrences in Nigeria rich in iron, copper, gold, and molybdenum deposits. The document also presents a case study of the Antamina copper-zinc skarn deposit in Peru to illustrate deposit geology and mineralization.
The document summarizes the mineralogical and textural evolution of manganese mineralization in western Rhodope massif in northern Greece. It finds that economic manganese oxide deposits formed through weathering of hydrothermal veins related to Oligocene magmatism. At Kato Nevrokopi, progressive weathering of primary veins containing rhodochrosite and other minerals resulted in formation of supergene manganese oxide minerals like todorokite and nsutite in veins and cavities. The mineral paragenesis records the progressive oxidation of the deposits from primary carbonates to less hydrated manganese oxides over time.
The prospecting and mining of base metal in India
dates back to 3000 B.C. All the base metal deposit of India has
surface manifestations in various forms. From 19th century to the
middle of the present century, certain European companies
started a modern phase of base metal exploration and
development. Earlier, the search for base metal was confined to
the close study of surface features. In 1940 ground geophysical
survey work has been introduced in order to search the mineral
deposits. The total world production of lead and zinc metals are
about 3.9 and 11.4 million tonnes respectively in 2009. The
leading producing countries for lead is China (41% of world
production), followed by Australia (15%), USA (10%), Peru (8%)
and Mexico (4%). The Indian production of lead and zinc ore is
7.10 million tonnes in the year 2009-10, it includes 136095 tonnes
of lead concentrate and 1224077 tonnes zinc concentrate. In
India, the Western Indian Craton (Rajasthan) is the main
provider of base metal to the country. It contributes nearly 85%
of the estimated lead and zinc. In Western India Craton, the main
metallotect of lead and zinc from an elongated NE – SW trending
polygon, this covers an area of about 20000 sq. km. It comprises
three metalliferous belts mainly, the Pur-Banera belt, the
Rajpura-Dariba- Bethumni belt, and the Sawar belt and two
metalliferous enclaves namely; the Agucha and the Kayar
enclave.
The 20 km. long crescent shaped, Rajpura-Dariba-Bethumni
belt striking N-S to NNE-SSW. The ancient mining and smelting
activities have been noticed at both ends of the belts. Towards the
southernmost part of the belt, the typical gossan is exposed in the
form of hill. B.C. Gupta, Geological survey of India (G.S.I) first
reported Dariba – Bethumni belt, in the year 1934. The
systematic exploration of the belt was initiated by G.S.I in 1962
and continuing till present. In the Rajpura-Dariba-Bethumni belt
Rajpura and Dariba blocks are under active production since
1983, whereas in the Sindesar Khurd block the production was
started in 2007, under the ownership of Hindustan Zinc Limited
of Vedanta Group. Recently the exploration activity is going on in
the Sonariya Khera block, Chittor block and Bethumni block
under the possession of Hindustan Zinc Limited.
This document describes a study analyzing pre-Columbian metal artifacts from northern Peru using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF). The study aims to differentiate between gold alloys, gilded copper, and copper-gold mixtures, as well as silver alloys and silvered copper. EDXRF is a non-destructive technique that analyzes the surface of artifacts. By measuring ratios of peaks for elements like gold, silver, copper, and comparing to standards, the researchers can determine the composition and layered structure of the artifacts. This method was tested on standards and applied to artifacts from cultures like Moche and Sicán dated between 1200 BC to 1375 AD.
The study examines the Mn-oxide mineralization at Kato Nevrokopi, Macedonia, northern Greece using EPMA and SEM to better understand controls on formation. Todorokite, nsutite, birnessite, and chalcophanite were analyzed from different localities representing varying weathering conditions. The chemistry and textures of the Mn-oxides indicate they formed under changing pH, oxidation state, climate, and water table fluctuations during weathering. Host rock lithology and protore mineral composition also influenced the development of late-stage hypogene and early supergene Mn-oxide assemblages through controlling base metal, alkali, and alkaline earth mobilities.
This document provides an introduction and overview for a course on Natural Resources Engineering. The course will cover topics related to identifying and analyzing different natural resource and energy sources, including oil, gas, mining, and renewable energy. It will evaluate geophysical properties, stability concepts, and environmental mitigation techniques. The course is divided into four chapters that will cover initiation and challenges in the field, geosciences concepts, fundamentals of rock mechanics from a natural resources perspective, and renewable energy and environmental mitigation. Students will be evaluated based on a case study, final exam, and course expectations questions.
Development of copper technology in ancient indiaPrachya Adhyayan
1) Copper was widely used in ancient India from as early as the 5th millennium BC based on evidence from sites like Mehrgarh and Nal.
2) During the Indus civilization between 2600-1900 BC, copper, bronze, and other metals like lead, silver, and gold were commonly used to make vessels, tools, weapons, and ornaments as seen at major sites.
3) After the Indus civilization, copper use continued and spread to other parts of India as seen in artifacts from late Harappan sites as well as Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites across the subcontinent.
La Arena and Alizar are porphyry-type Cu-Au-(Mo) deposits with associated Calaorco and Vanessa highsulfidation
epithermal mineralizations, respectively. In this study, we conducted multiple conventional
geochronologic analyses on samples from La Arena district, with the objective to obtain precise a temporal
relationship among porphyry emplacement, hydrothermal alterations, cooling, exhumation history and preservation,
together with published age data for the district.
A precursor quartz–diorite pluton and a late–mineral andesite porphyry bracketed the mineralization in the La
Arena and Alizar porphyry deposits. Zircon U-Pb dating of these intrusive rocks display markedly concordant
ages, with emplacement beginning and ending at 26.50 ± 0.23 to 25.36 ± 0.07 Ma at La Arena, and at 26.47 ±
0.08 to 25.30 ± 0.07 Ma at Alizar. 40Ar/39Ar chronologic data for hydrothermal biotite from the potassic zone
ranges from 25.97 ± 0.16 to 25.73 ± 0.16 Ma in the Alizar, and hypogene alunite from the advanced argillic
alteration yield an age of 25.66 ± 0.15 Ma in the Vanessa. The weighted mean apatite (U–Th)/He ages of the
porphyry intrusions of the La Arena and Alizar range from 24.26 ± 0.56 to 23.42 ± 0.37 Ma.
These geochronologic data reveal that the porphyry systems were emplaced intermittently for at least 1.2 m.y.
during the late Oligocene (26.5 – 25.3 Ma). The porphyry intrusions would have been uplifted from its depth of
formation at ~ 2 km suggested by telescoped and a short time period (0.07 m.y.; 40Ar/39Ar ages) between
porphyries and associated high-sulfidation epithermal events. The cooling history from zircon crystallization at
800 ◦C to thermal collapse at 75 ◦C (apatite helium close temperature) lasted ~ 2.5 m.y. in the ore-systems. The
thermal collapse occurred coeval with the Inca IV orogeny (~24 Ma), period of rapid uplift and exhumation in
northern Peru (0.24 km/m.y.; (U-Th)/He age-elevation spectrum). If exhumation continued at the rate of 0.24
km/m.y. unroof of the ore-deposits lasted 5 m.y. (24–19 Ma). Since their exposure at ~ 19 Ma, these ore deposits
were subjected to weathering and oxidation during 2.12 m.y. It is thus estimated that approximately 500-m
thickness of materials have been removed from the Alizar and La Arena during uplift and erosion, including a
large volume of ore. Subsequent volcanic activity occurred during the Quechua I orogeny (~17 Ma) at ca. 16.88
Ma, leading to burial and partially preservation of these ore deposits.
This document provides an overview of introductory mining concepts through several sections:
1) It outlines how mining has contributed to civilization by supplying basic resources and traces the history of mining parallel to cultural eras defined by minerals.
2) Terminology related to mining is defined, including classifications of ores and minerals.
3) Key events in the advancement of mining technology from the earliest surface mining to modern continuous miners are highlighted.
4) The typical stages in the life of a mine from initial prospecting to exploitation and eventual reclamation are described.
5) Unit operations involved in the production cycle from rock breakage to material handling are briefly introduced.
The excavation of the Mayiladumparai site in Tamil Nadu yielded early iron finds and two radiocarbon dates. Samples from 104 cm and 130 cm depth were dated to 1615 BCE and 2172 BCE, making them some of the earliest iron dates in India. Ferrous artifacts from undated contexts were analyzed using portable X-ray fluorescence, identifying their iron composition and trace elements. The analyses provide insights into the early use of iron technology at the site and archaeological research was initiated under Prof. Sharada Srinivasan.
Mineralization of Rare Earths, Platinum and Gold in a Sedimentary Deposit, Fo...CrimsonPublishersAMMS
Mineralization of Rare Earths, Platinum and Gold in a Sedimentary Deposit, Found Using an Indirect Method of Exploration by Eleazar Salinas-Rodríguez in Aspects in Mining & Mineral Science
Modern diamond exploration uses a multi-pronged approach to find kimberlite-hosted diamond deposits. Key techniques include:
1) Identifying prospective cratonic areas where diamonds are most likely to form based on mantle conditions.
2) Sampling for kimberlite indicator minerals in soils, sediments, and glacial deposits to vector back to potential kimberlite sources.
3) Using geophysical methods like magnetics, electromagnetics, and gravity to detect kimberlites based on their physical property contrasts with host rocks.
4) Analyzing indicator minerals for chemistry, paragenesis, and thermobarometry to evaluate a kimberlite's diamond potential and prior
ME8491 ENGINEERING METALLURGY - UNIT 1karthi keyan
The document discusses the iron-carbon phase diagram and the different phases that appear on it. It defines the common structures seen on the diagram including ferrite, pearlite, austenite, cementite, martensite, and ledeburite. It provides details on their composition, crystal structure, properties, and how they form based on the cooling process. Understanding these structures is fundamental to materials science and engineering as the microstructure of steels and cast irons determines their overall properties and applications.
Mineral deposits and exploration potential of nigeria (flyer)Moses Olade
Nigeria, the most populous nation and largest economy in Africa is endowed with abundant mineral resources, including energy fuels, industrial minerals, gemstones, and metallic minerals. As West Africa has become a major destination for mining investors and exploration companies, Nigeria's mineral resources have generated considerable interest from exploration and mining companies worldwide. This book furnishes a detailed description of the deposits of metallic, non-metallic, solid energy, gemstones and industrial minerals in Nigeria with emphasis on their location, geological setting, mode of occurrence, physical and chemical characteristics, ore reserve estimates and metallogeny. It also provides a geoscientific analysis of the solid mineral sector, mineral production statistics, mining, and potential targets for mineral exploration.
There are twenty chapters in the book, divided into five parts. Part I is an introduction to mineral resources and discussion of the geological and tectonic setting and classification of Nigeria's mineral deposits. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of known deposits of eighteen metals (Fe, Au, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ag, Sn, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ti, Bi, Cr, Ni, Pt, Mn, Al) with emphasis on their geological environment, mode of occurrence, mineralogy, origin, ore reserves mining history, and exploration. Part 3 describes the distribution, geological setting and reserves of solid energy minerals (uranium, coal, and bitumen), while Part 4 focuses on the geological occurrence, mineralogical and physical properties, mineral reserves and uses of non-metallic minerals comprised of thirty industrial minerals/rocks and several gemstone minerals. Part 5 reviews the status of the solid minerals industry, new mining regulations, mineral production statistics, mining practices, metallogenic provinces and assessment of resource potential and exploration targets in Nigeria. A Glossary of Common Terms in Economic and Mining Geology is included at the end of the book.
This book is an invaluable source of information, not only for geology and mining students, but also for practicing geoscientists, exploration and mining professionals and administrators in government and private companies who are interested or involved in economic geology, mineral exploration, and mineral resource development in Nigeria.
This document provides an outline for a lecture on Egyptian ore deposits. It begins with an introduction discussing ancient Egyptian mining and then provides an overview of the types of mineral deposits that are known to occur in Egypt, including gold, copper, tin, zinc, lead, and various other metallic and non-metallic ores. It then discusses different classifications that have been proposed for Egyptian ore deposits, grouping them based on factors like the time of deposition, metallogenic aspects, and tectonic-magmatic stages. The document concludes by presenting a proposed classification scheme that categorizes Egyptian ore deposits into groups based on their associated rock assemblages and modes of formation.
The document provides a chronological overview of key developments in mining history from prehistoric times through the Greco-Roman period. Some of the earliest developments included mining of flint and hematite beginning around 300,000 BC. Metallurgy advanced significantly between 7000-4000 BC in the Near East, with copper and bronze production and casting techniques developing. By the 2nd millennium BC, advanced copper, lead, and silver smelting was occurring in the eastern Mediterranean. Major mining regions and techniques expanded throughout this time period in various world regions.
1. The document describes the exploration and ownership history of the Caspiche porphyry Au-Cu deposit located in Chile's Maricunga belt, including work conducted by Anglo American, Newcrest, and Exeter Resource Corporation.
2. Key events include Anglo initially exploring the area from 1986-1990 and drilling 18 holes, Newcrest exploring from 1996-1998 and drilling 36 holes, and Exeter acquiring the property in 2005 and significantly expanding the resource through additional drilling.
3. As of 2009, Exeter had outlined an inferred resource at Caspiche of 19.6 million ounces of gold and 4.8 billion pounds of copper.
Mining is one of the key endeavors that provides basic resources for modern civilization. The history of mining parallels the history of civilization, with important eras associated with minerals like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Steel Age. Mining engineering involves applying engineering principles to develop, plan, operate, close, and reclaim mines. Key terminology includes mine, mining, ore, gangue, waste, and metallic vs non-metallic minerals. The life of a mine involves several stages from exploration and development to extraction and beneficiation, and finally closure and reclamation.
Los estudios sobre joyería indígena de Patagonia han privilegiado las colecciones procedentes de Araucanía (centro-sur de Chile), considerando en menor escala la producción platera de la vertiente oriental de los Andes en el siglo diecinueve. Este artículo pre- senta los resultados obtenidos del estudio de los aros de plata reunidos en 1896 por Henry de La Vaulx en la toldería del cacique Valentín Saygüeque (1830-1903), famoso por el tesoro monetario y platero acumulado antes de su derrota militar en 1882, cuan- do encabezaba un grupo de orígenes mixtos huilliche, pehuenche, pampa y tehuelche que controlaba el “País de las Manzanas” (provincia de Neuquén, Argentina). El análisis formal, tecnológico y físico-químico de la colección conservada en el Musée du quai Branly de Paris ofrece una primera síntesis sobre una producción platera contextualizada geográfica y cronológicamente, así como criterios analíticos para la datación de la joyería indígena.
El trabajo aborda las epistemes decoloniales como prácticas antagónicas al estado de relaciones (inter)culturales impuestos por la colonialidad. A partir de un análisis semiótico aplicado a dos obras del pensamiento mapuche, se propone la dimensión epistémico decolonial como basal en su organización de sentidos, comprendiendo que son sistemas de conocimientos en oposición a las formas de dominación que desde el mundo moderno-colonial se han ejercido en desmedro del pueblo mapuche. Se concluye proponiendo que este tipo de epistemes contribuyen a re-escribir la interculturalidad, construyendo, así, un nuevo marco de convivencia humana.
El poder en las ciudades coloniales latinoamericanas ha sido representado como “blanco” y “masculino”. Por medio de este texto nos aproximaremos a las transformaciones experimentadas en las representaciones raciales, de clase y género en la ciudad de Cuenca (Ecuador) a partir del análisis comparativo de la elección de las reinas y cholas cuencanas, en un contexto social marcado por la reivindicación del mestizaje cultural.
Presentamos los resultados de un estudio exploratorio y cualitativo acerca de las transformaciones agrarias y los conflictos hídricos que han emergido en las últimas tres décadas entre localidades históricamente agrícolas y grandes empresas mineras en el norte de Chile. Investigamos en tres casos de estudio: Quillagua (comuna María Elena, Región de Antofagasta), Peine (comuna San Pedro de Atacama, Región de Antofagasta) y Los Loros (comuna Tierra Amarilla, Región de Atacama). A partir del discurso de los entrevistados, efectuamos una reconstrucción histórica de los cambios centrándonos en tres dimensiones interrelacionadas que permiten abordar el problema: características de las actividades agropecuarias, presencia y vínculos con la minería, y situación de los recursos hídricos.
El análisis antracológico realizado en el sito de El Caño (provincia de Coclé, Panamá) nos permite hacer una primera aproximación a las posibilidades que este tipo de análisis arqueobotánico proporciona para el estudio de las sociedades de jefatura, y específi- camente de sus contextos funerarios. La identificación de los recursos leñosos utilizados, y el establecimiento de hipótesis acerca de su posible función en relación con el ritual mortuorio, es fundamental para poder profundizar en la comprensión del ritual y de la gestión de los recursos realizada por las jefaturas en el istmo de Panamá.
El presente trabajo examina variaciones dietéticas asociadas a diferencias de estatus al interior de comunidades jerarquizadas utilizando indicadores de patología oral. En los Andes Centrales, a pesar de la existencia comprobada de profundas divisiones sociales, la etnohistoria sugiere pocas diferencias dietéticas durante periodos tardíos, pero los datos bioarqueológicos que sustenten esta afirmación son escasos. Se analizaron 145 individuos exhumados del cementerio Los Pinos del valle de Huaura, costa central peruana (ca. 1200-1300 d.C.). Este conjunto de individuos fue clasificado en tres grupos de estatus social de acuerdo con la riqueza en ofrendas de los entierros. En dicha muestra se estudiaron 14 indicadores de patología oral. Los resultados muestran que todos los individuos de Los Pinos, independientemente de su grupo de estatus, estaban expuestos a una dieta considerablemente cariogénica y exhiben un patrón de lesiones común en el que predominan caries oclusales y una altísima proporción de caries cervicales (que parece estar estrechamente asociada al consumo de chicha), remanentes radiculares y abundantes pérdidas dentales en vida (con una mayor propensión en mujeres). Los datos de patología oral sugieren que el estatus social no condicionó el consumo diferenciado de carbohidratos y confirman el carácter extendido del hábito de coqueo en todos los grupos sociales, con un ligero predominio en individuos masculinos de estatus superior.
Se presenta el análisis zooarqueológico de los restos de guanacos (Lama guanicoe) recuperados de la ocupación Arcaica Tardía del sitio MAU085, emplazado en el valle de Mauro, Norte Semiárido chileno. Este análisis tuvo por objetivo entender la organización espacial del sitio, el cual corresponde a un campamento de cazadores-recolectores orientado al procesamiento de animales, entre otras actividades. El conjunto de análisis realizados apunta a una ocupación no estival y reiterada del sitio desde el 3.200 hasta los 2.500 años a.p., con una organización espacial relacionada a actividades de procesamiento, descarte y transporte principalmente de guanacos, junto a la confección y preparación de artefactos líticos de apropiación.
Presentamos los resultados de la investigación arqueológica de un sitio fechado hacia el Holoceno Medio en los Andes del Norte Semiárido de Chile. La escasez de este tipo de evidencias pone de relieve la importancia de dar cuenta cabal del contexto estudiado y los conjuntos ahí recuperados. Las características del sitio como una estación de tareas de tipo avistadero hacen que Techo Negro se integre de forma significativa al conjunto de información regional disponible y permite confrontarla con el actual estado de algunos modelos de ocupación que incluyen la distribución diferencial de sitios y los cambios ambientales a escala de milenios.
Este trabajo discute la secuencia de desarrollo histórico prehispánico en el Norte Semiárido de Chile a partir del estudio de las dinámicas espaciales y temporales de las ocupaciones humanas en la cuenca hidrográfica del río Limarí. A partir del estudio de asentamientos, materiales depositados en colecciones y arte rupestre se observa una secuencia de transformaciones y desarrollo desde el Arcaico Temprano hasta el período Incaico que diverge de lo tradicionalmente planteado para la región, reconociéndose ritmos de cambios sociales diferenciales dentro de la misma zona, especialmente en relación con la tradicional asociación entre incorporación de cerámica y la constitución de un modo de vida agrícola. La incorporación del arte rupestre permite articular sus características espaciales y representacionales con procesos más amplios, discutiéndose las relaciones establecidas entre dinámi- cas y cambios sociales con los flujos de información que producen las representaciones rupestres y sus respectivas audiencias.
En las últimas décadas los arqueólogos han tendido a examinar la problemática Tiwanaku fuera del núcleo altiplánico, principal- mente en términos de acceso a recursos y/o complementariedad ecológica y religiosa, entre un centro y su periferia. Sin embargo, dominados por las ideas de Estados o imperios, estas reconstrucciones adolecen de reduccionismo económico e iconográfico, en perjuicio del entendimiento de los fenómenos políticos andinos. Dentro de esta problemática, retomamos la relación entre Tiwanaku y San Pedro de Atacama a partir de un nuevo estudio de la cerámica negra pulida de los cementerios de Solcor y Coyo, en razón del carácter fundacional que Le Paige y Tarragó le imprimieron a esta alfarería para abordar el impacto altiplánico en la región. Este análisis, en conjunto con la reciente evidencia bioarqueológica obtenida por este equipo y otros, nos permiten repensar este vínculo y avanzar hacia la compresión de una realidad social mucho más dinámica, heterogénea y desigual.
Será hasta la Vuelta de Año: Bailes Chinos, Festividades y Religiosidad Popular en el Norte Chico.
Rafael Contreras Mühlenbrock y Daniel González Hernández. Primera edición. Edición Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile, Santiago, 2014
La identificación de las comunidades a partir de la organización socioespacial de su territorio es un interés clásico, pero no menos problemático de los estudios regionales en arqueología. Dentro del contexto andino, el problema es particularmente dificultoso debido a la flexibilidad de escala demográfica e identitaria del concepto vernáculo de ayllu tal como aparece en las fuentes etno- históricas y etnográficas, así como por el hecho de la paradigmática espacialidad discontinua e interdigitada del poblamiento de los territorios descritos por las mismas fuentes.
El análisis del poblamiento prehispánico tardío (siglo XI a siglo XVI d.C.) del valle del Apurímac (Cusco, Perú) es una oportunidad para contribuir en esta discusión a partir de informaciones inéditas referentes a la estructura territorial de las comunidades aldeanas asentadas en uno de los más profundos valles interandinos ubicado al pie de la cordillera de Vilcabamba. El estudio combina análisis espacial, ecología cultural, arqueología del paisaje y analogía etnográfica para proponer una lectura multifactorial y multiescalar de los patrones de asentamiento prehispánicos. A escala local, el estudio pone en evidencia un tipo de red de asentamientos re- currente que podría corresponder al esquema socioespacial de comunidad aldeana. A escala regional, el estudio muestra, desde una perspectiva bottom-up, la heterogeneidad del poblamiento del valle, el mismo que ilustra la compleja situación geopolítica expresada por las fuentes etnohistóricas sobre este espacio territorial intermedio vecino al corazón del Tawantinsuyu. Desde el punto de vista teórico, los datos permiten desarrollar una reflexión acerca de los fundamentos territoriales de las comunidades aldeanas prehispánicas tardías.
Los estudios sobre la presencia de límites sociales o de diferentes sociedades y poblaciones en el humedal del Paraná inferior (Argentina) fueron siempre inferidos a partir de la base material del registro arqueológico, ya sea por diferencias estilísticas o bien por la presencia/ausencia de ciertas características arqueológicas materiales. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo complementar dichos estudios mediante el análisis de rasgos epigenéticos craneofaciales. Para esto se analizaron 39 indivi- duos provenientes, por un lado, del norte y sur del Paraná Guazú y, por el otro, de los subsectores ambientales denominados Planicies inundables y Delta inferior. Los resultados obtenidos muestran diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre estas dos últimas unidades ambientales, dadas por la presencia de la foramina infraorbital múltiple y del hueso wormiano epiptérico entre los individuos de Planicies inundables y su completa ausencia entre aquellos del Delta inferior. Estos resultados, si bien preliminares, son un gran avance para la arqueología regional, ya que es la primera vez que la existencia de diferencias bio- lógicas puede ser interpretada como la coexistencia de diferentes sociedades a través de análisis que exceden la comparación intrarregional de la variabilidad artefactual.
La presente investigación explora el grado de estrés sistémico al que estaban sometidas las poblaciones de San Pedro de Atacama durante los períodos Medio e Intermedio Tardío mediante el análisis de cortisol en el cabello de restos humanos de estos períodos. Los niveles similares de cortisol encontrados en los individuos de San Pedro de Atacama y en individuos actuales sugieren que, si bien las condiciones ambientales y sociales de las poblaciones prehispánicas fueron muy distintas a las actuales, la población prehispánica en San Pedro de Atacama no estaba sometida a niveles de estrés sistémico mayores que la actual, posiblemente debido a la larga historia de ocupación en la región que permitió que dichas poblaciones se adaptaran a sus condiciones particulares. Los niveles de cortisol de los individuos analizados del período Medio mostraron una tendencia a ser menores que los del Intermedio Tardío, congruente con las diferencias en la calidad de vida sugeridos por marcadores osteológicos y con los cambios culturales y ambientales asociados a ambos períodos. Aunque diversos factores pueden afectar los niveles de cortisol encontrados en muestras arqueológicas, este marcador muestra el potencial para complementar los resultados obtenidos sobre las poblaciones de San Pedro de Atacama utilizando otros enfoques.
El artículo explora la vinculación entre las condiciones de vida que enfrentan los y las inmigrantes en la ciudad de Santiago, con las formas de habitar que ellos mismos despliegan en un espacio público específico: una esquina ubicada en el centro histórico y cívico de la ciudad de Santiago, en la que los migrantes concurren cotidianamente a buscar trabajo y compartir con los connacionales. Se sostiene que estas formas de vivir y habitar la esquina se vuelven modos de vivir el proyecto migratorio, en un contexto de sobre- vivencia cotidiana donde el trabajo alcanza máximos niveles de precarización. El encuentro, reconocimiento y apropiación de un lugar público posibilita el desarrollo de procesos identitarios que configuran un “nosotros” que se desarrolla a partir de procesos de diferenciación, los que a su vez revierten estigmatizaciones y reafirman posiciones de poder dentro de la propia comunidad de migrantes. De este modo se sostiene que la generación de identidades colectivas se construye a partir de las formas de habitar el lugar y de los procesos de distinción que se generan respecto de la población local y respecto de la propia comunidad de migrantes.
Este documento presenta los resultados de una etnografía escolar realizada en una escuela rural mapuche en la región de la Araucanía en Chile. La escuela se gestiona de manera autónoma por la comunidad mapuche local y busca implementar un modelo educativo vinculado a la identidad y cultura mapuche. Aunque la escuela se define como "no intercultural", la investigación encontró que funciona como una comunidad de práctica donde conviven elementos culturales mapuches y no mapuches. Esto proporciona a los estudiantes mapuches una experi
Este documento analiza las celebraciones indígenas de los mocovíes en la reducción de San Javier durante el siglo XVIII desde una perspectiva etnobotánica histórica. Las celebraciones fortalecían los lazos sociales y las alianzas políticas, pero los misioneros las veían negativamente por el consumo de bebidas fermentadas. Estas bebidas se elaboraban con especies vegetales de la región y tenían un significado cultural importante, aunque los europeos buscaban desterrar las celebraciones. El documento identifica las
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El fracaso de los enfoques semiológicos aplicados al arte rupestre tiene su origen en el intento de atribuirle un carácter fonémico, es decir, la reducción de la expresión visual a su contenido o expresión verbal. En tanto que la mayoría de los casos rupestres el significado es inaccesible, es claro que el punto de partida debe necesariamente descansar en el significante. En el presente artículo exploramos en una nueva vía de análisis, que apela a un lenguaje intersemiótico que se nutre tanto de la semiótica como de la arqueología. Fundados en este diálogo o arqueosemiótica, consideramos aquí los estilos de arte rupestre como un sistema, como una configuración de significantes distintivos organizados en relaciones, vínculos que constituyen una estructura visual culturalmente significativa. Estas soluciones definen la arquitectura de modos de ver determinados histórica y socialmente, arreglos que distinguen a dos estilos de pintura rupestre de la región atacameña que nos sirven de casos de estudio: los estilos Confluencia (Formativo Temprano 4.000-2.400 a.p.) y Cueva Blanca (Formativo Tardío 2.400-1.600 a.p.).
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1. Volumen 45, Nº 1, 2013. Páginas 3-31
Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena
THE STYLE, TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION
OF SICÁN MINING AND METALLURGY, NORTHERN PERU:
INSIGHTS FROM HOLISTIC STUDY*
EL ESTILO, TECNOLOGÍA Y ORGANIZACIÓN DE LA MINERÍA Y METALURGIA
SICÁN, NORTE DEL PERÚ: VISIONES DESDE UN ESTUDIO HOLÍSTICO
Izumi Shimada1 and Alan K. Craig2
This paper explains what Shimada has termed a holistic approach to craft production and illustrates its value by discussing insights
gained into the style, technology, and organization of Middle and Late Sicán (ca. AD 900-1,375) mining and copper-arsenic me-
tallurgy. After a brief characterization of the geographical and cultural settings of pertinent research by the Sicán Archaeological
Project (1978-present) and the holistic approach, we discuss specific methods and strategies for locating and dating pre-Hispanic
mines. Based on our examination of eight mines in the study area that supplied copper oxides and/or arsenic-bearing ores, we offer
a general characterization of Sicán mining, emphasizing the integral character of local mining and autochthonous copper-arsenic
alloy (also called arsenical bronze) production at nearby smelting sites (six excavated to date). Our analyses of primary context
samples of ore and smelting products and by-products recovered at smelting sites show that copper-arsenic was deliberately and
locally smelted and that arsenic was derived from scorodite (oxide form of arsenopyrite) and/or weathered sulfide ores available
near the surface of local mines. Additionally, we discuss insights gained into careful and sustainable charcoal fuel management
and the “modular organization” of metallurgical and other productive activities.
Key words: Sicán, holistic approach, copper-arsenic, Andean archaeometallurgy.
Este documento explica lo que Shimada ha denominado enfoque holístico del estudio de la producción artesanal antigua y ejemplifica
su valor discutiendo perspicacias adquiridas acerca del estilo, tecnología y organización de la minería y metalurgia Sicán Medio
y Tardío (ca. 900-1.375 d.C.). Luego de una caracterización de los marcos geográfico y cultural del Proyecto Arqueológico Sicán
(1978-presente) y del enfoque holístico, discutimos métodos y estrategias específicas para ubicar y datar las minas prehispánicas.
Basados en nuestra evaluación de ocho minas en el área de estudio que proveían de óxidos de cobre y/o minerales conteniendo
arsénico, ofrecemos una caracterización general de la minería Sicán, enfatizando el carácter integral de la minería local y pro-
ducción autóctona de cobre arsenical en sitios cercanos de fundición. Nuestros análisis de muestras de minerales y productos y
subproductos de fundición muestran cómo las aleaciones de cobre arsenical fueron deliberadas y fundidas localmente, y que el
arsénico fue derivado de la escorodita (óxido de arsenopirita) y/o minerales sulfuros erosionados disponible cerca la superficie
de las minas locales. Adicionalmente, discutimos visiones adquiridas acerca del manejo cuidadoso y sostenible del combustible
de carbón vegetal y de la “organización modular” de la metalurgia y otras actividades productivas.
Palabras claves: Sicán, enfoque holístico, cobre arsenical, arqueometalurgia andina.
* Artículo seleccionado del conjunto de ponencias presentadas en la Primera Reunión Internacional sobre Minería Prehispánica
en América (PRIMPA), realizada en San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, diciembre 2010. Este manuscrito fue evaluado por
investigadores externos y editado por Diego Salazar y Valentina Figueroa, en su calidad de editores invitados de la Revista.
1 Department ofAnthropology, Southern Illinois University, 1000 Faner Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901 U.S.A. ishimada@siu.edu
2 2556 Sundy Ave, Delray Beach, FL 33444-2130 mary2861@gmail.com
Recibido: agosto 2011. Aceptado: noviembre 2012.
Over 100 years of scientific investigation into
indigenous New World metallurgy that began in
the late 19th century (e.g., Bergsøe 1937, 1938;
Boman 1908; Cushing 1894; Mathewson 1915;
Mead 1915; Nordenskiöld 1921) have revealed
that Peru and neighboring countries distinguished
themselves in terms of technological developments
as well as by the quantity, diversity and cultural
significance of metal products. In fact, as early as
1921, Erland Nordenskiöld (1921) recognized the
cultural importance and distinct character of north
coast metallurgy. Over the next decades, technical
and artistic studies documented the remarkable
sophistication, innovative character and versatility
of what was essentially a copper and copper-alloy
based metallurgy (e.g., Caley 1973; Caley and Shank
1971; Jones 1979; Lechtman 1973, 1984, 1988;
Lechtman et al. 1982; Patterson 1971; Shimada
1994a, 1999).
While important advances were made in
north coast archaeometallurgy, the resultant
vision was rather truncated and perhaps even
distorted by the predominant focus on finished
objects looted from elite funerary contexts that
2. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig4
lacked crucial contextual information and over-
represented the final segment of what was, in
reality, a long, multi-phase production process.
While Lechtman’s (1976) macro-scale survey of
ancient mines and metallurgical sites provided a
valuable pan-Peruvian overview and effectively
complemented the earlier, pioneering works of
A. Raimondi (1878, 2004[1889]; also Villacorta
2004) and G. Petersen (1970), efforts to locate
and excavate mines and associated smelting
and smithing workshops on the north coast (and
for much of the Andes) subsequently have been
relatively rare and/or of short in duration (e.g.,
Bernier 2010; Oehm 1984; Topic 1990).
Understandably, the paucity of in-depth
studies of primary production and use contexts
has hampered discussion of issues such as the
organization and social relations of production
(e.g., Costin and Wright 1998) and unbiased
assessment of the distribution, use and value
of products across the entire social spectrum.
Metallurgy is, indeed, much more than a tech-
nology for transforming metallic ores to usable
metals; technical and artistic studies, and surveys
alone cannot effectively elucidate the complex
set of behavioral, material, social and ideologi-
cal variables and processes that interact with and
shape it. Thus, we needed to strive for a compre-
hensive understanding of the many components,
phases, and functions as well as significance of
metallurgy and its products within appropriate
social and historical contexts (emphasis added)
This ambitious aim called for long-term, focused,
interdisciplinary investigation of integrated mining
and metallurgical complexes and (b) their broader
regional contexts (emphasis added).
The interconnected complex of the Cerro Blanco
mine and the nearby Cerro Huaringa-Cerro Sajino
metallurgical complex (hereafter identified as the
Co. H-S Complex; Shimada et al. 1982; Shimada
and Merkel 1987; Figures 1, 2, 3) that Shimada first
surveyed in 1978 offered a rare and ideal research
setting for just such a purpose. The complex is
situated just south of the town of Batán Grande in
the mid-La LecheValley on the north coast of Peru.
Since then, our effort to maximize the potential of
this research setting and to achieve what Shimada
(see below) has called a holistic understanding of
Sicán craft production has been the driving force
behind over three decades of research by the Sicán
Archaeological Project.
This paper has two aims: to explicate our holistic
approach to craft production in general and, more
specifically, to illustrate its value by discussing
some of the insights we have gained into the style,
technology and organization of the Sicán mining
and metallurgy. After a brief characterization of
the geographical and cultural settings of pertinent
research by the Sicán Archaeological Project and
the holistic approach, we discuss specific methods
and strategies for locating and dating pre-Hispanic
mines. Based on our examination of pre-Hispanic
mines in the study area that supplied copper oxides
and/or arsenic-bearing ores, we offer a general
characterization of Sicán mining and metallurgy,
emphasizing the integral character of local mining
and autochthonous copper-arsenic production at
nearby smelting sites. Additionally, we discuss
insights gained into careful and sustainable charcoal
fuel management and the “modular organization”
of metallurgical and other productive activities.
Holistic Approach
The holistic approach to craft production is
built on a broadly inclusive conception of produc-
tive activities and aims to (1) define and explicate
the technology and organization of the entire
production process from acquisition of necessary
ingredients and product preparation to recycling of
products and byproducts, and (2) understand the
functions, significance and distribution of products,
as well as the social conventions and institutions,
social relations of workers, and value system that
influenced the manufacture, use and meaning of
products (Shimada 1985a, 1994a; Shimada et al.
1994, 1999; Shimada and Merkel 1987; Shimada
and Wagner 2007). It is holistic in the sense of
embracing diachronic and synchronic as well as
material and human dimensions of productive
activities. Figure 4 illustrates key components of
this approach and how they interrelate.
Our general conception of craft production re-
sembles those of the châine opératoire (e.g., Dobres
and Hoffman 1994; Lemonnier 1993; Sellet 1993;
Sillar and Tite 2000), object biography (Gosden and
Marshall 1999; Jones 2002), and others that different
scholars (e.g., Costin 2001; Lechtman 1977; Schiffer
and Skibo 1987) have advocated independently.
Our holistic approach, however, distinguishes itself
in prioritizing focused studies of production sites
and the diverse use contexts of their products by
3. 5The style, technology and organization of Sicán mining and metallurgy, northern Peru: insights from holistic study
Figure 1. Northern north coast with major modern settlements and archaeological sites. HPBG refers to Huaca del Pueblo Batán
Grande. Prepared by Izumi Shimada.
Mapa de la parte norte de la costa norte del Perú señalando ríos principales y sitios arqueológicos pertinentes al presente estudio.
Se refiere HPBG al sitio de Huaca del Pueblo Batán Grande. Elaborada por Izumi Shimada.
4. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig6
means of long-term interdisciplinary collaboration
both in and out of the field (emphasis added). The
pursuit of production sites and diverse use contexts
as well as identification of production ingredients
and workers requires regional multi-site sampling
and survey (emphasis added). Analysis and inter-
pretation of the evidence thus obtained are based on
the four complementary methods of archaeometry,
experimental archaeology (both laboratory and
field), ethnoarchaeology, and the comparative study
of existing artifact collections (Figure 4). These
methods form a critical, self-directed, self-corrective
process. Samples and/or insights gained from one
method are independently verified through one or
Figure 2. The study area with locations of mines, smelting and metalworking sites, and associated roads. Prepared by Kayeleigh Sharp.
La zona de nuestro estudio señalando las ubicaciones de minas, sitios de fundición y metalistería y caminos asociados. Elaborada
por Kayeleigh Sharp.
5. 7The style, technology and organization of Sicán mining and metallurgy, northern Peru: insights from holistic study
more other remaining methods. Highly controlled
and replicable laboratory experiments and more
realistic but harder to control field experiments
are also reciprocally informative (Shimada 2005;
Shimada et al. 2003; Skibo 1992).
Sicán Culture and the Study Area
1. Study Area
The Sicán was a prominent pre-Hispanic cul-
ture that emerged in the 9th century centered in the
Lambayeque Complex on the northern north coast of
Peru (corresponding to our study area; Figure 2) and
persisted until the end of the 14th century (Table 1).
The Complex consisted of the four contiguous
(north to south) Motupe, La Leche, Lambayeque,
and Zaña river valleys that were hydrologically in-
terlinked by four major intervalley canals (Jayanca,
Racarumi, Taymi and Collique).At the height of the
Sicán culture some 1,000 years ago, Kosok (1959,
1965) estimated that the Complex encompassed a
third of the total cultivated land on the Peruvian
coast, while Schaedel (1972) calculated its resident
population size to have been 1.0 to 1.5 million.
Extensive metallic ore deposits in the foothills of
the constituent valleys and productive year-round,
intensive fishing effectively complemented large-
scale irrigation agriculture to provide the Sicán with
Figure 3. The integrated Batán Grande Metallurgical Complex and its constituent mines of Cerro Blanco, Cerro Mellizo, and
Barranco Colorado, and Sicán smelting sites interconnected by roads. Prepared by Kayeleigh Sharp.
El Complejo Metalúrgico Integrado de Batán Grande y sus minas componentes en Cerro Blanco, Cerro Mellizo y Barranco
Colorado y sitios de fundición Sicán interconectado por caminos. Elaborada por Kayeleigh Sharp.
Table 1. Sicán chronology.
Cronología de Sicán.
Sicán Inca AD 1,460/70 – 1,532
Sicán-Chimú AD 1,375 – 1,460/70
Late Sicán AD 1,100 – 1,375
Middle Sicán AD 900 – 1,100
Early Sicán AD 750/800 - 900
6. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig8
what was probably the most productive economic
foundation and greatest demographic potential of
the entire coast for their time period.
2. Sicán Culture
The Sicán culture began forging its distinctive
character (corresponding to the Early Sicán period)
by fusing selected autochthonous features of the
persistent, local Moche (also known as Mochica)
cultural tradition with exogenous features related
to relatively transient Wari and Pachacamac influ-
ence from the south. The nature of their interaction
and subsequent developmental processes are still
not well understood (Castillo 2001; Chapdelaine
2010; Mackey 2000; Menzel 1977; Schaedel 1993;
Shimada 1985b, 1990). This cultural hybridiza-
tion, together with the waning of the Wari Empire
aroundAD 900 and the aforementioned impressive
productive capacity of the Lambayeque Complex,
formed the basis for the rapid formalization of the
Sicán religion and associated art style as well as
its notable economic growth and political power.
During this florescent Middle Sicán period, AD
900-1,100, the Sicán established a state-level polity,
a stratified, multi-ethnic society, ideological and
political dominance over at least 350 km-stretch
of the northern north coast (at least spanning from
the ChiraValley to the north to the ChicamaValley
to the south) and a far more extensive interaction
sphere that included a trade network that reached
Colombia to the north and the south-central Peru
to the south (Segura and Shimada 2012; Shimada
2000, 2009).
Among the most distinguishing and important
legacies of the Middle Sicán culture were innovative
and advanced pyrotechnologies. Their metallurgists
distinguished themselves in successfully producing
copper-arsenic alloys and gold alloys on an un-
precedented scale and employing them for a wider
range of use than ever before (e.g., Shimada 1994a;
Shimada et al. 1999, 2000; Shimada and Griffin
1994; Shimada and Merkel 1991). Documented
Middle Sicán elite tombs often contain many precious
metal objects as well as hundreds, if not thousands,
of both sheet and solid cast copper-arsenic alloy
Figure 4. Graphic representation of the components of the holistic approach and their interrelationship. Prepared by Izumi Shimada
and Steven Muller.
Representación gráfica de los componentes del Enfoque Holístico y su interrelación. Elaborada por Izumi Shimada y Steven Muller.
7. 9The style, technology and organization of Sicán mining and metallurgy, northern Peru: insights from holistic study
objects totaling hundreds of kilograms in weight
(Pedersen 1976; Shimada 1995; Shimada et al.
2000). Among the diverse grave goods found in
the East Tomb (3x3 m and 11 m deep) at the north
base of the monumental temple mound of Huaca
Loro, Sicán, were over 60 major high-karat gold
alloy ornaments and 489 cast copper-arsenic alloy
agricultural tools (in 15 tied bundles) weighing a
total of nearly 200 kg (Figure 5).
Copper-arsenic alloys replaced pure copper
as the utilitarian metal of northern Peru until the
Spanish conquest (Cleland and Shimada 1992;
Shimada and Merkel 1991). Metals permeated
all facets of this culture and differentiated access
to different metals served as a visible marker of
social status (Shimada 1994b). At the same time,
their potters succeeded in large-scale production
of well-fired, true blackware, often with a metallic
sheen (Shimada and Wagner 2001) and forms that
clearly emulated more prestigious metallic vessels
(Cleland and Shimada 1992; Rondón 1965/66).
The pottery became widely valued, engendering
an unparalleled popularity of black ceramics that
rapidly spread along much of the Peruvian coast
and persisted until Spanish conquest.
Perhaps in response to impacts of an El Niño-
ENSO event (ca.AD 1,050) of historic proportions
that compounded the adverse effects of an immedi-
ately preceding severe drought (ca.AD 1,020-1,050;
Craig and Shimada 1986; Shimada et al. 1991), Sicán
society underwent an unprecedented reorganization
(Jennings 2008; Shimada 2000, 2009). Late Sicán
culture (AD 1,100-1,375) featured a new capital
at Túcume at the juncture of the La Leche and the
Lambayeque valleys, abandonment of the Sicán
Deity veneration, and truncation of the trade net-
work. Copper-alloy production, however, continued
during this period (Epstein and Shimada 1984).
AroundAD 1,375, the expanding Chimú Empire
intruding from the south conquered the Late Sicán
polity, ending its political autonomy (Shimada 1990,
2000). The Chimú and the Inca, who conquered
the Chimú ca. AD 1,460-70, both recognized the
superiority and importance of Sicán metallurgy and
intensified its production relocating many work-
ers to their respective capitals of Chan Chan and
Figure 5. Approximately 1.2 tons of grave goods recovered from the Huaca Loro East Tomb. Most of the weight and the objects
seen in the foreground are copper-arsenic products. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
El ajuar funerario de la Tumba Este de Huaca Loro que en total pesa aproximadamente 1,2 toneladas. La mayoría del peso y los
objetos visibles en primer plano son productos de cobre-arsénico. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
8. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig10
Cusco (Shimada 2000, 2009; Topic 1990). Thus,
Sicán metallurgy lived on long after the demise of
the Sicán polity.
Applying the Holistic Approach to Sicán
Mining and Metallurgy
1. Locating Pre-Hispanic Mines
We employed various methods to locate pre-
Hispanic mines in our study area with a particular
emphasis on the area just south of the modern town
of Batán Grande where the Co.H-S Complex is
situated. We began with examination of a regional
geological map prepared by the Instituto Geográfico
Militar del Perú and different sets of conventional
vertical, black-and-white airphotos acquired from
the ServicioAerofotográfico Nacional del Perú, and,
later, remote sensing images taken by the Landsat,
Space Shuttle, and Earth Observing System [EOS].
Remote sensing images proved to be unproductive
because of problems of scale and inadequate visual
resolution. Many pre-Hispanic workings are too
small to be detected in images at the scale avail-
able today. The same scale problem hampers the
use of conventional airphotos. Theoretically, very
large scale photos (i.e., ≤ 5,000) could be specially
obtained to overcome this problem, assuming local
relief did not cause too much vertical distortion, but
it would be quite costly for prospecting large areas.
Airphotos (1:10,000) were useful in identifying
local mineralization sources such as dome-shaped
Cretaceous igneous intrusions like Cerro Blanco
and Cerro Condor (Figure 6) south of the town of
Batán Grande. They may appear as “extrusions”
due to exposure by post-Cretaceous erosion. Just as
the Cerro Blanco mine is situated in a mineralized
zone just east of the light-colored, massive intrusion,
we suspected that there would be mines in the area
surrounding Cerro Condor. As remote sensing by
whatever means always requires a thorough ground
check to confirm the interpretations that have been
made, we tested our prediction by targeting this
area for intensive pedestrian surveys assisted by
local inhabitants and a prospector/mining engineer,
Luis Suarez.
Figure 6. Cerro Cóndor, the distinctly shaped Cretaceous igneous intrusion responsible for mineralization found at Barranco
Colorado and Cerro Mellizo. Looking southwest. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
Cerro Cóndor, la intrusión igneacretácea con forma particular causante de la mineralización identificada en Barranco Colorado
y Cerro Mellizo. Mirando hacia el suroeste. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
9. 11The style, technology and organization of Sicán mining and metallurgy, northern Peru: insights from holistic study
Airphotos were also valuable for locating
ancient roads. In these images, we sought seem-
ingly anomalous, but carefully prepared ancient
roads (Figure 7) heading usually to uninhabited
mountainous areas. The presence of such roads is
perhaps the single most conspicuous archaeological
indication of pre-Hispanic mining. This method
is advantageous as field tracing of such roads can
reveal not only mines and processing sites at their
termini, but also empty stone enclosures that could
have served as corrals for ore-carrying llamas and
smaller stone structures with utilitarian sherds
that we believe functioned as roadside camps. At
the same time, as with various aspects of ancient
mining, it is difficult to securely date these roads
(see below). Probably the best means, as just dis-
cussed, is through artifacts and architecture found
along and at the termini of the road. For example,
Road 4 in Figure 3 connecting the Cerro Blanco
mine with the Sicán smelting centers of Cerro
Huaringa and Cerro Sajino, although in part used
by modern miners, is associated with a petroglyph
of the Sicán Deity head, an inferred llama coral,
Spondylus princeps offerings, and paleteada (paddle-
stamped) and other pre-Hispanic sherds. Different
portions of Road 6 display divergent construction
techniques and widths (including a segment literally
paved with pre-Hispanic sherds) that may reflect
different work groups.
The Cerro Mellizo mine (Figure 8) is accessible
by well-established, predominantly east-west running
Road 2 (see Figure 2) that continues to the major
site of Túcume (Middle Sicán to Inca periods, AD
1,000-1,532; Heyerdahl et al. 1995; Shimada 2000).
At the north base of Cerro Condor, it intersects
Road 3 that runs north-south. Farther north of the
intersection, Road 3 in turn intersects the east-west
running Road 4 that leads to the extensive Barranco
Colorado mine (see below). Slightly north of this
intersection, Road 3 bifurcates with Road 5, the east
branch, heading to the Co. H-S. Complex.
At the east base of Cerro Condor, the afore-
mentioned Road 2 from the Cerro Mellizo mine
connects to Road 6, a wide road that runs northward
to the Co. H-S Complex along the west margin of
the Pampa de Chapparí (Figure 2). Traffic on this
road could easily have supplied ores to at least two
(Sites 256A01 and 81C10 at the north and south
ends of the Pampa, respectively) -and perhaps even
six- Middle Sicán smelting sites that were recently
identified in the Pampa de Chaparrí (Hayashida
personal communication, 2010).
For the pedestrian surveys, we adopted the
methods used by traditional prospectors (cateadores)
working in arid regions.We interviewed local inhab-
itants, particularly goat and cattle herders, as they
routinely combed through the countryside looking
for pastures, water sources and/or their animals.
The idea was that they might have encountered
mineralized areas (e.g., ore veins), pits or shafts
and/or associated talus of gangue that differed
from the surrounding landscapes, and/or “floats”
or ore fragments in dry streambeds. Showing them
examples of ores in which we were interested often
helped to stir their memories. It is critical to respect
the knowledge of local inhabitants.
In addition to informants, an effective, time-
honored method is surveying for floats (ore fragments
that washed downstream). We searched streambeds
Figure 7. A wall that defines one side of an ancient road to
the pre-Hispanic Cerro Mellizo mine. Note a modern road for
vehicular traffic cut through the ancient road. Looking northwest.
Photo by Izumi Shimada.
La pirca baja que delimita los bordes de un camino antiguo
que dirige a la mina de Cerro Mellizo. Nótese que un camino
moderno para vehículos cruza el camino antiguo. Mirando
hacia el noroeste. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
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for floats that indicate the presence of minerals
of interest somewhere upstream. As one moves
upstream closer to the parental outcrop, the float
becomes coarser, more jagged and fresher as it is
more recently eroded and has traveled less distance.
Most of these ore sources in our study area are rather
large quartz veins stained by the slow weathering
of the pyrites they commonly contain to produce
a rusty gossan (an exposed, oxidized portion of a
mineral or ore vein). Corrosion of this matrix, in
turn, exposes the green and turquoise-blue coatings
of secondary malachite and azurite, respectively.
Little effort is then needed to expose the underlying
crystalline mass of the main ore body.
The above approaches can be creatively com-
bined to best suit a given study situation. Such an
adaptable, multi-strand approach is essential to
identify the localized, limited landscape changes
associated with small-scale, non-mechanized, highly
selective pre-Hispanic mining.We are fortunate that
these ancient workings in our study area have not
been destroyed. Modern mining companies have
largely written off much of the north coast from
their exploitation as lacking the necessary large
tonnage copper porphyry-type deposits suitable for
large-scale open pit mining and often containing
undesirable arsenic.As discussed later, the presence
of the weathered, oxidized form of arsenopyrite
(FeAsS) known as scorodite (FeAsO4•2H2O), is
critical to understanding local copper arsenic alloy
production. At the same time, it should be kept
in mind that, even when a mine is identified, the
high-grade ore deposits may have been long ago
exhausted.
2. Dating Pre-Hispanic Mines
As already noted above, dating of mines/mining
activity is one of the greatest challenges facing
Andean archaeometallurgy. The general scarcity
of reliably datable features and material remains
at mines, both artifactual and organic, as well as
disturbances by Colonial and/or recent exploita-
tion necessitate reliance on negative and broader
contextual evidence. The discoveries such as the
well-preserved pre-Hispanic tools with the famous
Figure 8. The east slope of Cerro Mellizo that was extensively altered by ancient mining. Note the remains of ancient workings
still visible on the slope. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
La ladera este de Cerro Mellizo extensamente alterada por la explotación minera antigua. Nótese las perforaciones resultantes
de la explotación antigua en la ladera. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
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“Copper Man” of Chuquicamata on the north coast
of Chile (Bird 1979; Fuller 2004; Mead 1921) and
diagnostic ceramics and radiocarbon-datable materi-
als at the La Primavera hematite mine in backpart
of the Ingenio Valley between Palpa and Nasca
valleys on the south coast of Peru (Vaughn et al.
2007) represent rare, fortuitous occurrences. Other
relative dating means besides diagnostic artifacts
and architecture are discussed below.
The principal working (east slope) of the Cerro
Mellizo mine (Figure 2), in spite of extensive modern
mining-related disturbances, still preserved a four-
level terrace complex. The best preserved second
and third upper levels each measured ca. 20 m
long, 7 m wide and 0.5-2.6 m high with masonry
facing. Each level had a row of four standardized
rectangular, masonry rooms (4.5x5.3 m for those
on the second level and 4.5x4.5 m for those on the
third level; only their wall bases remain; Figure 9).
Although these rooms were free of surface debris
(perhaps cleaned by modern miners who set up up
camp within them), atop and on the north slope
of the low ridge immediately behind and some 5
m above these structures,we surface-collected the
constricted neck of a black Middle Sicán jar as
well as fragments of grey Chimú or Chimú-Inca
vessels and less diagnostic paleteada vessels. The
associated ceramics, then, suggest that pre-Hispanic
mining spanned ca. AD 1,000-1,532.
The standardized rooms are quite similar in
size, shape and construction to those connected
by a walled road to the nearby La Plata mine near
the village of Chumbenique on the north bank of
the Zaña Valley (Figures 2). Here too, associated
ceramics suggest a time span from Middle Sicán
to Chimú or Chimú-Inca periods. The standardized
structures at both mines, however, suggest Chimú or
Inca affiliation and may have served as storerooms.
An additional line of evidence pointing to the
pre-Hispanic date of the Cerro Mellizo mine is our
discovery of two large Spondylus princeps frag-
ments near an ancient pit. Luis Suarez (personal
communication, 1984) reports finding a cluster of
some 20 buried Spondylus princeps shells at a nearby
location in 1982, prior to the historic 1983 El Niño-
ENSO event that badly eroded the area. S. princeps,
a thorny oyster with striking pinkish-red or orange
colored flesh and shell is derived from the tropical
Figure 9. Four-level terrace complex with standardized masonry rooms at the west edge of the Cerro Mellizo mine. Looking
north. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
El complejo de terrazas en cuatro niveles con cuartos rectangulares estandarizados de mampostería ubicado en la margen occidental.
12. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig14
sea along the Ecuadorian coast and farther north and
was long used throughout theAndes as an important
offering. Artistic representations and colonial-era
documents both point to shell’s symbolism related
to water and fertility (e.g., Carter 2008; Glowacki
2005; Paulsen 1974). “The Huarochirí Manuscript”,
a Quechua folklore/religious account (Andean
religion as opposed to Inca religion) recorded in
its original language sometime at the beginning of
the 17th century relates that the mullu, large tropi-
cal marine shells including Spondylus sp., are the
favorite food of deities who reside in mountains
and other sacred locations (Salomon and Urioste
1991). The Spondylus offering we documented at
the Cerro Mellizo mine, then, may have constituted
a “payment” or “appeasement” to the supernatural
beings who governed the Cerro to allow the miners
to extract ores (see below).
At the extensive Barranco Colorado mine, a
working (ca. 1.5 m wide, 100 m long, >4 m deep
[total depth undetermined yet due to the fill]) that
traced a narrow discovery vein (ca. 3.5 m wide) at
the peak of Cerro Barranco Colorado (Figure 10)
yielded no datable items. A roughly U-shaped,
masonry structure (>6 x >5 m) amongst over 30
dispersed open circular and oval pits (ranging from
ca. 1.5 m across and 1 m deep to 30 x 13 m x 4 m
deep) on the west slope of the Cerro was associ-
ated with a batán (large anvil stone for crushing
ores and/or slag; 0.68x0.45 m x 0. 25 m high) and
pre-Hispanic ceramics that together suggest a time
span similar to that of the Cerro Mellizo mine.
Careful examination of tool marks in mines
provides additional chronological clues. The stone
hammers used by pre-Hispanic miners leave blunt
edged peck marks (sometime with some crushed ores
still adhered) that contrast with the sharper edged
marks that modern steel tools leave. Removal of
high-grade ore by carefully tracing veins inevitably
results in irregularly shaped workings. On the other
hand, spacious adits (nearly horizontal accesses to
mines), winzes (vertical or steeply inclined shafts
between different levels in a mine for access and/
or ventilation), and stopes (step-wise excavations
to extract ore from steeply inclined veins) suggest
Colonial and/ormore recent mining (Shimada 1994a).
Figure 10. Narrow pre-Hispanic working atop Cerro Barranco Colorado and associated tailings (to the left of the mine). Looking
southwest. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
La mina angosta encima de Cerro Barranco Colorado y los restos de minerales desechados (a la izquierda de la mina). Mirando
hacia el suroeste. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
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Additionally, we should maximize any organic
debris inside mines including soot accumulations
(torches for lighting or fire-setting or fire-quenching)
for AMS-dating and a minimum age of mines.
Again, our best approach to reliable dating
appears to be multi-pronged and opportunistic.
3. Sicán Mining: Case Study at the Cerro
Blanco Mine
The Cerro Blanco mine deserves special at-
tention here for the insights it affords us on Sicán
mining (Shimada 1994a; Shimada et al. 1982). Our
understanding is most complete for this mine, which
is one of the largest we have documented so far in
the study area. The mine was also repeatedly worked
during the historic past, and even into the present on
a sporadic basis. This continuing activity is evidence
that the deposit was unusually rich and extensive.
Megascopic and microscopic examination of ore
samples collected at two prospecting pits and the
inferred principal pre-Hispanic working indicates
the presence of high-grade malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2
as well as a variety of weathered but high-grade (up
to 25% concentration) copper sulfides, particularly
chalcopyrite, CuFeS2, and to a lesser extent, bornite,
Cu5FeS4, and arsenopyrite, FeAsS.
TogetherwiththeCerroMellizoandtheBarranco
Colorado mines, Cerro Blanco was most likely one
of the principal ore sources for the nearby smelting
sites of Cerro Huaringa, Cerro Sajino, Huaca del
Pueblo Batán Grande (Figure 11) for much of their
existence spanning the Middle Sicán period to the
time of the Spanish Conquest.
The Middle Sicán origin of the Cerro Blanco
mine is indicated not only by the initiation of the
copper-arsenic alloy smelting at Huaca del Pueblo
Batán Grande (Shimada 1985a,b; Shimada and
Merkel 1991) and most likely Cerro Huaringa, but
also by the presence of a petroglyph of the diagnostic
Sicán Deity face (Figure 12) along the road (Road 1)
that connected the mine with the Co. H-S Complex.
This road was later improved as part of the system-
atization and expansion of metallurgical production
instituted at the Complex soon after Chimú conquest
of the Sicán polity at the end of the 14th century
Figure 11. Middle Sicán smelting workshop at Huaca del Pueblo Batán Grande showing three superimposed sets of smelters. Note
offerings placed near and atop the abandoned smelters. Looking northwest. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
El taller de fundición Sicán Medio en el sitio de Huaca del Pueblo Batán Grande señalando los tres conjuntos superpuestos de
hornos de fundición. Nótese las ofrendas puestas cerca y encima de los hornos abandonados. Mirando hacia el noroeste. Foto
de Izumi Shimada.
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(Epstein and Shimada 1984). For much of its length,
the elevated road had stone-faced embankment and
was wide enough to accommodate llama caravans
(Shimada and Merkel 1991). In our 1979 survey of
the road, we found six whole Spondylus princeps
shells that had eroded out of embankments, clearly
attesting to the symbolic importance of the integrated
mine-metallurgical complex.
Ore extraction at the mine started at the dis-
covery-vein which radiated out from Cerro Blanco
with a vertical dip and strike of 90°. Not a vestige
of mineralization remains in this narrow trench
(Figure 13) that slices through highly metamor-
phosed cherty limestones and shales now altered to
marbles, phyllites, and hornfels. This vein pinched
out at shallow depth and was abruptly terminated a
few meters within the adjacent hillside by a major
transverse fault and gouge zone, both of which were
also mineralized.
Sicán miners removed the ore, most likely to
have been malachite, from the 25x3x9m discovery
vein entirely by hand, leaving the cajas (barren
country rock walls) completely clean and undis-
turbed.A similar trench-like caja characterized the
nearby Cerro Barranco Colorado mine (Figure 10).
Hanging wall surfaces are quite clean and geo-
metrically shaped surfaces are absent. There are
no indications that fire-quenching was employed
at either mine. Thus, we suspect that the vein and
ore material were deeply weathered and friable.
The discovery-vein trench was followed along
its length to the abrupt end created by a large
concentric fault roughly parallel to Cerro Blanco.
Prehistoric miners followed this new and even
larger vein, probably in both directions, although
only one side now remains relatively undisturbed
by later exploitation.Again, there is nothing to sug-
gest that they used any special tools or techniques
Figure 12. Petroglyph of the Sicán Deity figure (his face measures roughly 18 cm wide and 10 cm high) on a boulder at the north
base of Cerro Blanco close to the ancient road connecting the mine and the Cerro Huaringa and the Cerro Sajino smelting sites.
Photo courtesy of Juan Carlos Santoyo.
El petroglifo representando el Dios Sicán (su cara mide aproximadamente 18 cm de ancho y 10 cm de altura) grabado en una
peña en la base norte de Cerro Blanco. Está ubicado cerca del camino antiguo que conecta la mina de Cerro Blanco por un lado
y los sitios de fundición de Cerro Huaringa y Cerro Sajino. Foto cortesía de Juan Carlos Santoyo.
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distinct from those found with the “Copper Man”
of Chuquicamata.
Inside prospecting pits and larger workings
at Cerro Blanco, we found roughly triangular and
oblong stones (17-22cm long, 9-13cm wide, and
3-6cm thick), resembling the “hammers” found
associated with the “Copper Man” (Bird 1979:114,
his Figure 4). The battered apices of the triangular
stones and their heavy weight (around 0.5kg) sup-
port the notion that at least some of them served
as picks or hammers to crack or batter ores into
small pieces that could then be collected in bags or
baskets much as Copper Man did. Wedges, pegs,
and levers made of algarrobo (Prosopis pallida) or
other hardwood (palm tree heart?) and/or of hardened
copper arsenic alloys may have been employed to
pry loose larger ore fragments. We have, however,
no supportive physical evidence of their use other
than associated river cobbles that could have served
as hammers to drive them into ore bodies.
Today, the Cerro Blanco mine consists of three
levels developed along a concentric mineralized
vein, plunging at 41° toward the intrusive stock.
Several large stopes and winzes have been opened
in connection with these levels and it is doubtful
they represent pre-Hispanic workings. If Sicán and
other pre-Hispanic miners did, in fact, follow the
complex ore shoots, more recent exploitation have
obliterated traces of their efforts.
Identifying and estimating the quantity of ore
removed from the pre-Hispanic mines we have ex-
amined in the study area is a difficult task; at Cerro
Blanco, Cerro Mellizo and a few other mines, nothing
diagnostic was left behind to indicate the type and
richness of the ore they removed. Additionally, we
suspect that the bulk of relatively less accessible
ores that had remained at the mine was taken out
during historic times. At the same time, if we ar-
bitrarily assign a conservative mean grade of 3-4%
of copper oxide to the Cerro Blanco ore body, we
believe its copper production alone is sufficient to
account for much of the copper and copper alloy
artifacts curated in all museums on the Peruvian
coast with which we are familiar.
4. Characterizing Sicán and Late Pre-
Hispanic Mining in the Lambayeque Region
Based on our investigation of six pre-Hispanic
mines in the study area (Table 2), we offer the fol-
lowing characterization of late pre-Hispanic mining
in the Lambayeque region:
1. Mining focused on ore deposits at or near the
surface, carefully following and thoroughly
removing them, leaving behind open pits that
matched exactly the shape of the original ore
body, regardless of size. Mine interior shape,
size, and orientation are generally irregular
or sinuous as dictated by the ore deposits that
were removed, a conclusion identical to that
reached by Craddock (1995:31) for the early
mines of Europe.
2. Mining targeted secondarily enriched, high-grade
oxide ore bodies, small and large (mostly in the
form of high-grade malachite (Cu2CO3[OH]2;
up to 25% copper in weight (Merkel et al.
1994) as well as arsenopyrite [FeAsS], and a
variety of weathered copper sulfides, chalco-
pyrite [CuFeS2)]) resulting in tailings that are
relatively small in size and volume. Weathered
arsenopyrite near the surface was noted at
Figure 13. Trench left behind after removal of the discovery vein
at the Cerro Blanco mine. Looking east. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
Una zanja grande que resultó de la explotación antigua de la
veta (“discovery vein”) en la mina de Cerro Blanco. Mirando
hacia el este. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
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various mines including Cerro Mellizo and
Cerro Leque Leque (ZañaValley; Fig. 2), while
chalcopyrite was available at Cerro Blanco.
3. Mines penetrated less than 10m in vertical depth
(no definite stopes) and up to 100m horizontally
with discontinuous concentrations worked by
means of separate, shallow pits as at Cerro
Barranco Colorado and Cerro La Plata.
4. Well-developed roads (some with embankment,
wall borders and/or some pavement [including
use of sherds for the purpose]) that would have
accommodated llama caravans provided access
to mines.
5. Ore extraction relied on a limited range of el-
ementary stone tools with triangular hammers
(perhaps hafted?) being the most essential as
miners focused on weathered and friable (thus
easily extractable) ore bodies. Distinctive peck
marks were noted on wall faces at various mines.
Given that ore extraction did not require much
technical expertise once the target deposit was
identified, the task could have been performed
by conscribed non-specialists, although it would
have been physically taxing wielding heavy
stone hammers.
6. We found no conclusive evidence of fire-setting
or fire-quenching (e.g., charcoal and ash on the
mine floor, heat-alterations on mine interiors,
and/or relatively smooth mine wall surfaces
resulting from the exfoliation of heat-fractured
layers) that would have facilitated extraction
by shattering and fracturing the exposed ore
bodies. Although the subsequent extraction
of the desired ore from areas affected by fire-
setting or fire-quenching may have removed
much of the above lines of evidence, we would
expect at least to find some easily identifiable
evidence. Yet, we did not find any.
7. Provisions for light, ventilation, drainage, and
safety were generally lacking, although the arid
conditions of the region minimized problems
of water seepage.
8. Torches may have been used for light as soot
was noted on the ceilings of some mines.
9. Evidence for a regular supply of provisions
including water, on-site food preparation, and
protective shelters for workers at mines is
scant. Given that the mines we located were
all within a day’s walk to at least one smelting
site, mining may well have been conducted on a
commuting basis. Simple rectangular masonry
structures adjacent to or near workings found at
large mines (Barranco Colorado, Cerro Blanco,
Cerro La Plata, and Cerro Mellizo) could have
provided short-term resting places for workers
and/or storage for mining and beneficiation
equipment as well as extracted ores waiting
to be transported. These structures need to be
excavated to properly test the above inferences.
10. Initial ore beneficiation was conducted near
each mine, although it was minimized by the
highly selective nature of their mining and use
of blunt tools that tended to crush or break up
ores into relatively small usable pieces (thus
leaving only small gangue piles and/or taluses).
11. Final ore beneficiation was performed at smelt-
ing sites using batán-chungo sets (Figure 14;
a large stable anvil and a heavy, companion
rocking stone) that efficiently crushed ores into
tiny pieces, facilitating quick hand and visual
sorting.
12. Last - but by no means the least important –was
the widespread symbolic importance of mines
Figure 14. A batán-chungo set used for crushing ores and slag
at Sector III, Cerro Huaringa. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
Un conjunto de batán y chungo utilizado para triturar minerales y
escoria en el Sector III, Cerro Huaringa. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
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(mines as huacas or sacred places or entities)
or belief in the supernatural power of mines.
Offerings of mullus (e.g., Spondylus princeps)
placed at workings and along roads suggest
the sanctity of mines and extracted ores. The
aforementioned presence of the petroglyph
of the Sicán Deity at the north base of Cerro
Blanco (Fig. 11) is particularly noteworthy
is this regard. Ethnohistorical sources offer
strong support of the preceding view (Ramírez
1994:95-96).
Overall, Sicán and later pre-Hispanic metal
mining in the Lambayeque region of the north
coast of Peru was technically simple, labor
intensive, and focused on readily accessible
outcropped, weathered and enriched, high-grade
oxide, carbonate and sulfide ore bodies bearing
copper and arsenic (arsenopyrite and scorodite).
The Sicán opted for a spatially dispersed mining
pattern that exploited all accessible sources and
thus the scale (and perhaps intensity as well) of
mining varied according to the size and extent
of the ore body.As discussed below, our holistic
investigation of mines and associated smelting
sites has shown that Sicán copper-arsenic alloy
production was essentially autochthonous and
based on local ores supplied by mines of varied
size within a day’s walking distance.
Mining-Metallurgy as an Integrated System:
A Holistic Vision
1. Sicán copper-arsenic alloy production:
local ores and co-smelting
In the preceding sections, discussion about
dating mines, identifying extracted ores, the in-
tensity and organization of mining, and the roads
that interconnected specific mines and smelting
sites all illuminated the importance of coordinated
investigation (i.e., holistic approach) of both mines
and smelting sites to gain an overall understanding
of the system these constituted. Perhaps the most
instructive case demonstrating the value of the
holistic approach is its contribution toward resolv-
ing the nature of smelting charge used in the Sicán
metallurgy that produced copper arsenic alloys with
typical arsenic concentrations of 1 to 5% by weight.
It has been long debated whether pre-Hispanic
metallurgists successfully smelted sulfarsenide ores
such as arsenopyrite (FeAsS), orpiment (As2S3) and
realgar (AsS) by first roasting them to eliminate
sulfur to produce these alloys and, if so, the sources
of these ores (Caley 1973; Caley and Easby 1959;
Lechtman 1979, 1981, 1991, 1996; Lechtman and
Klein 1999). Caley (1973) interpreted the presence
of arsenic in Sicán objects as indirect evidence that
sulfide ores were being smelted. Lechtman (1979,
1991) argued that the idea of deliberately producing
this type of bronze on the north coast was a cultural
innovation introduced along with highland arsenic-
bearing ores at the time of the highland-based Wari
expansions around AD 600-850.
As noted earlier, however, some Moche ceremo-
nial and ornamental copper objects dating to as early
asAD 200-300 from Dos Cabezas and Moche in the
Jequetepeque and the Moche valleys, respectively
(Donnan et al. 2008; also see Kroeber 1954), contain
variable and generally low concentrations of arsenic,
raising the possibility that Moche metallurgists were
either unable to effectively control the alloy process
or produced copper-arsenic alloys unintentionally,
perhaps through co-smelting of copper oxide and
arsenic-containing sulfide (e.g., arsenopyrite;
emphasis added) ores (Bezúr 2003; Rostoker and
Dvorak 1991; Lechtman and Klein 1999).
Pursuing rich outcropped copper oxide ores,
Moche and later Sicán miners may well have in-
advertently tapped into underlying sulfarsenide ore
bodies or nearby oxidized forms of arsenopyrite
(Bezúr 2003). The preceding data and argument,
together with the absence of imported arsenic-
bearing ores such as realgar and orpiment at any of
the Sicán smelting sites we excavated or surveyed,
question the earlier argument of externally derived
sulfarsenide ores and smelting technology. Orpiment
and realgar are visually quite distinct and easily
recognizable, having a golden to orange-yellowish
and a reddish color, respectively.
To the contrary, our analyses of primary
context samples of ore and smelting products and
byproducts recovered at smelting sites such as
Huaca del Pueblo Batán Grande have shown that
copper-arsenic alloys were deliberately and locally
smelted and that arsenic was derived partially, if not
predominantly, from scorodite available at the large
Cerro Mellizo mine (Merkel et al. 1994; Shimada
and Merkel 1991) and quite likely at other mines in
the study area with weathered arsenopyrite. Given
that much of the eastern slope of Cerro Mellizo
was removed prehistorically in an extensive open
pit, we cannot disregard the possibility that large
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quantities of both copper oxide and scorodite ores
were extracted from this mine. The presence of
matte, a mixture of sulfides formed in smelting
sulfide ores, in direct association with smelters at
Huaca del Pueblo Batán Grande (Merkel et al. 1994)
further supports the aforementioned co-smelting.
Together with gradual improvements in the design
and construction of smelters and tuyeres (durable
ceramic blowtube tips) that we have documented
over the span of some 500 years from the beginning
of the Middle Sicán (Shimada and Merkel 1991), we
believe that, over the same time span, Sicán metal-
lurgists refined the nascent co-smelting technology
inherited from their earlier Moche counterparts.
2. Fire-setting and fuel management
The holistic approach also illuminated an
important issue that has not received much atten-
tion in Andean archaeometallurgy: namely, fuel
management and fire-setting. The latter involves
deliberately setting an intense, sustained fire against
the wall face and has been well documented in many
ancient European mines (e.g., Craddock 1992). The
intense heat causes the ore deposits to both expand
and contract as moisture within vaporizes, result-
ing in their fracture and shattering and facilitating
extraction.
We have not found, however, evidence of
its application in the study area. The occasional
patches of soot on the ceilings of workings we
detected appeared to have resulted from torches,
not fire-setting. Given that fire-setting would have
significantly facilitated mining, particularly with
primitive pre-Hispanic stone tools, why this method
was not utilized begs consideration. The holistic
approach points to the ecological exigencies of the
arid environment of our study area and its limited
fuel supplies as key considerations.
Our paleoethnobotanical and replicative ex-
perimental studies of fuels used in smelting and
metalworking clearly reveal careful management
of wood and charcoal.
Sicán copper-arsenic smelting was fuel and labor
intensive. Our smelting experiments necessitated
the continuous labor of three to four individuals
providing continuous draft into a small furnace
through narrow blowtubes with ceramic tuyeres for
roughly three hours to produce slag lumps weighing
ca. 700-800g with embedded prills (tiny metallic
pieces) (Shimada and Merkel 1991; Figures 15,
16).Approximately 30g of copper prills were hand-
retrieved after crushing the resultant slag lump with
a batán-chungo set. Each experiment used about
1kg of smelting charge prepared from finely ground
high-grade malachite ore from the Cerro Blanco
mine roughly 30% in copper concentration in weight
combined with an equal part of finely ground, local,
high-grade hematite (readily available in outcrops
west of Cerro Blanco) as flux, and about 6kg of high
quality charcoal prepared from a locally available
hardwood, algarrobo (Prosopis pallida). If we
consider that the furnace had to be preheated prior
to smelting and prills had to be further refined and
consolidated to produce ingots and preforms, then
each smelting workshop equipped with three to five
furnaces at Huaca del Pueblo Batán Grande, Cerro
Huaringa, Cerro Sajino and other sites could easily
have consumed over 30kg of charcoal each day.
Microscopic analysis of charcoal in ceramic
kilns, metalworking furnaces, and domestic hearths
that coexisted at the ceramic-smithing workshop
of Huaca Sialupe (Goldstein 2007; Goldstein and
Shimada 2007; Figure 17) further revealed that
desirable algarrobo charcoal was reserved for craft
production and that residual algarrobo charcoal
from ceramic kilns was recycled for working both
copper-arsenic and gold alloys. Long-lasting and
high-energy yielding algarrobo charcoal was clearly
the mainstay of smelting (at Huaca del Pueblo
Batán Grande, Cerro Huaringa, Cerro Sajino) and
metalworking (at Huaca Sialupe). Well-preserved
algarrobo charcoal pieces at the Sialupe workshop
that were examined had relatively small diameters
and beetle holes and galleries.Apparently, infested
and/or dying trees and branches as well as fallen
trunks and branches were maximized as fuel rather
than harvesting healthy trees.
In sum, our holistic approach points to careful,
sustainable utilization of wooden resources. In this
sense, the absence of fire-setting or fire-quenching
is not an enigma, but instead appears to have been
a rational decision that appropriately weighed the
ecological exigencies of the arid Lambayeque region
and attendant limitations of high quality wooden
fuel supplies and the cultural importance of metals.
3. The style, technology and organization
of sicán metallurgy
We end this paper with a brief discussion of the
organizational principles and cultural preferences
underlying Sicán mining and metallurgy.
20. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig22
Figure 15. Replicating smelting experiment conducted at the Cerro Huaringa site using a well-preserved Chimú-period smelter.
Photo by Izumi Shimada.
Una escena del experimento de fundición realizado en el Sector III del sitio de Cerro Huaringa utilizando un horno de fundición
muy bien conservado de la época de la dominación Chimú (siglo XV). Foto de Izumi Shimada.
Figure 16. Slag with entrapped prills that resulted from our replicative smelting experiment shown in Figure 14. Photo by Izumi
Shimada.
El trozo de escoria con gotas metálicas (“prills”) entrampadas de distintos colores que resultó de nuestro experimento de fundición
ilustrado en Figura 14. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
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Over the course of the 34 years of the Sicán
Archaeological Project, we have excavated four
and identified three additional Sicán smelting sites
(Figure 2), most in relative proximity to a mine with
high-grade copper oxide and arsenic-bearing ores.
As noted earlier, the Ynalche Project directed by
Frances Hayashida (2009) documented two defi-
nite Sicán smelting sites and tentatively identified
an additional four within Pampa de Chaparrí. The
multiplicity of smelting sites and mines points to
“task redundancy on a regional level” (emphasis
added; Bezúr 2003:130) or what Shimada (1994a,
2001; Shimada and Merkel 1991; Shimada and
Wagner 2007) has termed “modular organization”
that crosscut a variety of Sicán productive activities
ranging from corporate architectural construction
to craft production.
At Cerro Huaringa and nearby Cerro Sajino,
copper-arsenic smelting was carried out at a series
of contiguously built workshops with similar dimen-
sions, organization and equipment, each equipped
with a row of smelting furnaces, one to three
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Figure 17. A group of Middle Sicán metalworking furnaces (identified by “Fe”) excavated at the east end of the Huaca Sialupe
workshop. Drawing by Izumi Shimada.
Un grupo de hornos de metalistería (identificados por “Fe”) excavados en el margen este del taller en Huaca Sialupe. Dibujado
por Izumi Shimada.
22. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig24
batán-chungo sets, a charcoal storage pit, and at least
one large storage urn that probably kept water for
workers (Epstein 1993; Epstein and Shimada 1984;
Figure 18). This general technological homogeneity
and organizational redundancy did not eliminate
variation among workshops. For example, the number
of furnaces (and presumably workers) in each work-
shop varied from 3 to 5. During the Middle and Late
Sicán periods, tuyeres were distinctly decorated and
made with pastes prepared with ground glassy slag
as a temper, suggesting the self-sufficient character
of these workshops (emphasis added; Shimada and
Merkel 1991). In general, prior to the establishment
of the administrative control of production by the
intrusive Chimú state starting from the end of the
14th century (Epstein 1993; Epstein and Shimada
1984), there is little evidence of standardization or
streamlining of production (Bezúr 2003; Shimada
and Merkel 1991). During the earlier Sicán peri-
ods, each workshop had a good deal of autonomy
in their daily productive activities resulting in an
appreciable amount of product variability among
workshops (emphasis added).
Essentially the same picture of organizational
and productive redundancy and autonomy emerged
at the Middle Sicán ceramic and metalworking
(copper-arsenic alloys and gold alloys) site of Huaca
Sialupe (Figure 2). Potters of inferred Moche eth-
nicity independently produced basically the same
array of mold-made ceramics of similar quality and
finish in contiguous but discrete rooms (Klaus 2003;
Shimada and Wagner 2007; Taylor 2002). They
produced vessels of Sicán and persistent Moche
styles concurrently at the workshop. The use of
molds assured that the same forms and images
were produced efficiently at the level of individual
potter or group of potters, but neither streamlined
production nor standardized products at the site
level (Shimada and Wagner 2007); in other words,
the specific châine opératoire and the number of
molds used to produce them differed just as did their
decoration in minor details. Formed ceramic vessels
were then fired in small batches using small kilns
that varied in size and shape but were placed close
to each other in a large open, well-ventilated area.
Highly efficient, natural draft-based metalworking
Figure 18. A Late Sicán smelting workshop at Cerro Huaringa Sector III. Note a row of smelting furnaces in foreground and three
well-worn batanes. Photo by Izumi Shimada.
Un taller de fundición del período Sicán Tardío en el Sector III, Cerro Huaringa. Nótese una hilera de hornos de fundición en
primer plano y tres batanes bastante desgastados. Foto de Izumi Shimada.
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Figure 19. Construction of a Middle Sicán metalworking furnace built with a well-insulated, inverted ceramic urn excavated at
Huaca Sialupe. Drawing by Izumi Shimada.
Diferentes vistas de un horno de metalistería Sicán Medio construido con una botija grande invertida y bien aislado encontrado
en el taller de Huaca Sialupe. Dibujo de Izumi Shimada.
furnaces (Figure 19) that varied in size and construc-
tion details were similarly organized in a distinct
area of this site (Shimada et al. 2007; Shimada and
Wagner 2007; see Figure 17).
In essence, the same redundant, modular ap-
proach was employed for both ceramic production
and metalworking throughout their respective
châine opératoire (Figure 20). Only in a general
sense (emphasis added) can we speak of standard-
ized products.
These examples show the clear preference for
relatively small-scale production units that, while
24. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig26
Figure 20. Châine opératoire of the Sicán metallurgical process. Drawing by Izumi Shimada and Steve Mueller.
Châine opératoire (secuencia de operación) del proceso metalúrgico Sicán. Dibujo de Izumi Shimada y Steve Mueller.
25. 27The style, technology and organization of Sicán mining and metallurgy, northern Peru: insights from holistic study
sharing basic technology and achieving equivalent
or similar outputs, enjoyed a good degree of techni-
cal, artistic and perhaps even political, autonomy.
This modular approach to productive activities had
characterized the preceding Late Moche society as
well (Shimada 2001).
The existence of multiple smelting centers each
in close proximity to at least one mine clearly points
to the considerable economic and political importance
of copper-arsenic alloy production.At the same time,
we do not see the overriding concern for productive
efficiency at either individual sites or the regional
level that one might expect during the Sicán periods.
We argue that this situation reflects the multi-ethnic
composition of Sicán society in which a local ethnic
Moche population constituted the primary labor
force administered by the ethnic Sicán elites. This
multi-ethnicity and attendant social inequality have
been documented by multiple independent lines of
evidence - iconographic representations, genetic
variation and patterns elucidated by biodistance and
mitochondrial DNA analyses, paleo-mobility and
dietary data from stable isotope analyses (strontium,
oxygen, carbon and nitrogen), and differences in
mortuary practices and health status, among others
(Klaus et al. 2011; Shimada 2009; Shimada et al.
2004). For the Sicán polity, preserving the existing
ethnic/kinship-based social fabric and groups, each
with its own functioning political and administrative
setups would have minimized both potential social
and political conflicts among the subject popula-
tions and investment of administrative personnel
and resources, while gaining a desired quantity of
workable/acceptable (as opposed to highly standard-
ized and refined) products. Ethnic Moche workers
would have retained a sense of social autonomy and
identity, at the same time, effectively preserving
the technical knowledge, skills and style that they
inherited from their own renowned predecessors.
One wonders if the inferred organization and ac-
companying mindset or psychology contributed to
the strong temporal continuity and conservatism of
Sicán mining and metallurgy.
Conclusion
The subject of pre-Hispanic metal mining has
remained under-studied and under-appreciated. To
advance and attract a wider range of researchers
to the subject, it is critical that mining and metal-
lurgy be investigated as an integrated process and
system and that its behavioral, social and ideologi-
cal significance be explored in depth. The holistic
approach we advocate is an ambitious undertaking
that entails a regional, multi-site perspective and
long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration in and
out of the field focusing on both production and
use contexts. We hope we were able to illustrate in
this paper that such investment of time and effort is,
indeed, worthwhile as it generates valuable insights
and reveals varied and important connections among
different facets and phases of the integrated process
of mining and metallurgy.
Acknowledgements: This paper presented
salient findings and insights gained on Sicán ar-
chaeometallurgy over the course of more than three
decades of investigation by the SicánArchaeological
Project under the direction of I. Shimada. For their
generous support of our research, we thank the
Committee for Research and Exploration of the
National Geographic Society, the National Science
Foundation, the Tokyo Broadcasting System, the
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research, and the Heinz Family Foundation. Many
Project members contributed to our archaeometal-
lurgical research; in particular, we are grateful to
Aniko Bézur, Stephen M. Epstein, John F. Merkel,
Juan Carlos Santoyo, and José Luis Suarez. Melody
J. Shimada provided valuable editorial critique on an
earlier and this version of our paper. Lastly, we also
thank the members of the organizing committee of
the Primera Reunión Internacional sobre Minería
Prehispánica en América for inviting us to present
an earlier draft this paper.
26. Izumi Shimada and Alan K. Craig28
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