Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
DOI | 10.1086/659426 |
Early Evidence (ca. 12,000 BP) for Iron Oxide Mining on the Pacific Coast of South America | |
Salazar, Diego1; Jackson, D.1; Guendon, J. L.2; Salinas, H.1; Morata, D.3; Figueroa, V.4; Manriquez, G.1; Castro, V.1 | |
通讯作者 | Salazar, Diego |
来源期刊 | CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY
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ISSN | 0011-3204 |
出版年 | 2011 |
卷号 | 52期号:3页码:463-475 |
英文摘要 | Iron oxides have been used extensively in the Americas from the Paleoindian period up to the ethnographic present. But, because archaeological mining sites are extremely rare in this continent, we still know very little about how indigenous groups exploited and processed these minerals. Here we report finds from the San Ramon 15 site, located on the arid coast of northern Chile, where our research revealed a prehistoric mine with associated tailings and mining debris that was exploited by hunter-gatherer-fisher groups. The mine was first exploited during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (ca. 12,000-10,500 calibrated years before present [cal yr BP]) and then again during the Late Archaic (ca. 4300 cal yr BP), representing the earliest known mining activity in the Americas. This discovery has important implications, including (1) the record of undisputed mining activity in the continent is extended by several millennia, showing the first insights into Early Archaic mining techniques and technologies; (2) the earliest inhabitants of the Pacific Coast of South America had a well-developed mining knowledge, that is, they were hunter-gatherer-fisher-miner communities; and (3) mobility patterns of early nomadic maritime adaptations in northern Chile were influenced by repeated access to iron oxide pigments used mainly for symbolic purposes. |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Chile ; France |
收录类别 | SSCI ; AHCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000291565200012 |
WOS关键词 | MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; CHILEAN ALTIPLANO ; RED OCHRE ; PERU ; PIGMENT ; AFRICA ; DESERT ; COLOR ; SITE |
WOS类目 | Anthropology |
WOS研究方向 | Anthropology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/167693 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Chile, Dept Antropol, Santiago, Chile; 2.Univ Aix Marseille 1, CNRS, Unite Mixte Rech 6636, F-13094 Aix En Provence 2, France; 3.Univ Chile, Dept Geol, Fac Ciencias Fis & Matemat, Santiago, Chile; 4.Univ Paris 01, Unite Mixte Rech 8096, F-75006 Paris, France |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Salazar, Diego,Jackson, D.,Guendon, J. L.,et al. Early Evidence (ca. 12,000 BP) for Iron Oxide Mining on the Pacific Coast of South America[J],2011,52(3):463-475. |
APA | Salazar, Diego.,Jackson, D..,Guendon, J. L..,Salinas, H..,Morata, D..,...&Castro, V..(2011).Early Evidence (ca. 12,000 BP) for Iron Oxide Mining on the Pacific Coast of South America.CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY,52(3),463-475. |
MLA | Salazar, Diego,et al."Early Evidence (ca. 12,000 BP) for Iron Oxide Mining on the Pacific Coast of South America".CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 52.3(2011):463-475. |
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