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Production And Exchange Of Obsidian From The Colca Valley, Arequipa Perú, Nicholas Tripcevich
Production And Exchange Of Obsidian From The Colca Valley, Arequipa Perú, Nicholas Tripcevich
Nicholas Tripcevich, Ph.D.
In Andean archaeology, it is stylistic evidence that form the basis for many investigations of long-distance relationships
and evidence of regional interaction. From hunter-gatherer projectile point type distributions to evidence of expansive
states like Wari and Tiwanaku, the basis of much of the inference regarding prehistory in the Andes is stylistic
relationships in workmanship, architecture, or iconography. In the past fifty years chemical characterization studies have
permitted a second basic form of regional evidence to emerge: provenancing studies.
Provenancing studies complement stylistic evidence because chemical provenance provides unqualified evidence of
contact between two regions. With provenancing studies: We know that …