βOver the millennia, from stone tools among early foragers to clays toΒ prized metals and mineral pigments used by later groups, mineral resources have had a pronounced role in the Andean world. Archaeologists have used a variety of analytical techniques on the materials that ancient peoples procured
Interdisciplinary Approaches to WPA Archaeological Collections in the Northeast
β Scribed by L. E. WILLIAMS; D. C. PARRIS; S. S. ALBRIGHT
- Book ID
- 118719045
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 768 KB
- Volume
- 376
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0890-6564
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