Inka and Spanish Colonial Silver Mining
in the Bolivian Andes
SITE DIRECTORY
The Porco-Potosí Archaeological Project is a multidisciplinary investigation of prehispanic and historic period silver mining at Porco, a mining center located 50 km to the southwest of Potosí in southern Bolivia. The goal of the project is to determine the way in which silver production was organized under different political regimes, with a particular focus on Inka and early Spanish Colonial times. This web site provides information about the history of Porco and Potosí, indigenous Andean metal production, and preliminary research results.
Funding for this project provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Science Foundation, the Curtiss T. Brennan and Mary G. Brennan
Foundation, and Colorado State University.
Please direct any comments or questions about the project to the director,
Mary Van Buren.
Web site designed by Andrew Mueller