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Physical and Cultural Constraint of Innovation in the Late Prehistoric Metallurgy of Cerro Huaringa, Peru
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
Abstract
The arsenical copper smelting technology reconstructed from the archaeological record at the late prehistoric industrial site of Cerro Huaringa, Peru, remained unchanged for the six centuries preceding the Spanish Conquest. This lack of technological innovation is argued to be a result of the physical constraints imposed by a cultural commitment to human breath as the source of draft.
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