The Production of Silver in South America

This paper is an English version of a text originally published (2011) as ‘Zur frühen Gewinnung von Silber in Südamerika’, in Slotta, R. and Schnepel, I. (eds) Schätze der Anden - Chiles Kupfer für die Welt, Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, 257-264.

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DOI: 10.5334/ai.1318

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7 Schultze, C., Stanish, C., Scott, D., Rehren, Th., Kuehner, S. and Feathers, J. (2009) ‘Direct evidence of 1,900 years of indigenous silver production in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Southern Peru’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci- ences of the United States of America 106, 17280–3, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/ pnas.0907733106.
9 Abbott, M.B. and Wolfe, A.P. (2003) ‘Inten- sive pre-Incan metallurgy recorded by lake sediments from the Bolivian Andes’, Sci- ence 301, 1893–5, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1126/science.1087806.

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[1] 3 Van Buren, M. and Mills, B.H. (2005) ‘Huay- rachinas and Tocochimbos: traditional smelting technology of the southern Andes’, Latin American Antiquity 16, 3–25, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30042484.

[2] 7 Schultze, C., Stanish, C., Scott, D., Rehren, Th., Kuehner, S. and Feathers, J. (2009) ‘Direct evidence of 1,900 years of indigenous silver production in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Southern Peru’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci- ences of the United States of America 106, 17280–3, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/ pnas.0907733106.

[3] 9 Abbott, M.B. and Wolfe, A.P. (2003) ‘Inten- sive pre-Incan metallurgy recorded by lake sediments from the Bolivian Andes’, Sci- ence 301, 1893–5, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1126/science.1087806.