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LOOKING AT A MAP MIGHT HELP: A COMMENT ON BURGER ET AL., “ECUADORIAN CINNABAR AND THE PREHISPANIC TRADE IN VERMILION PIGMENT: VIABLE HYPOTHESIS OR RED HERRING?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2017

Karen Olsen Bruhns ,
William E. Brooks  and
Deborah Truhan
Karen Olsen Bruhns*
Affiliation:
Fundación Nacional de Arqueología de El Salvador (FUNDAR)
William E. Brooks
Affiliation:
Independent scholar
Deborah Truhan
Affiliation:
Independent scholar
*
corresponding address 1243 Henry Street, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA (kbruhns@sfsu.edu, corresponding author)
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Abstract

Contrary to Burger et al. (2016), there is ample evidence of colonial cinnabar mining in southern Ecuador.

A pesar de la contención de Burger et al. (2016), existen abundantes evidencias de la minería colonial de cinabrio en el sur de Ecuador.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 609 - 610
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Copyright © 2017 by the Society for American Archaeology 

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