Prehispanic and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in the Andes
SITE DIRECTORY
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of the Southern Andes. Latin American Antiquity.
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.
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