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Kevin J. Vaughn, a Purdue assistant professor of anthropology, holds a pottery fragment he discovered at an excavation site in Nasca, Peru. The piece of pottery is from about the 5th century A.D., which is the same time period as other artifacts he uncovered at Mina Primavera. Vaughn hypothesizes the mine was the source of some of the iron ore pigments used to produce the vibrant colors as seen on this pottery. Credit: Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger

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http://www.archaeology.org/news/

“Museum scandals aren’t limited to California. Former Yakama Nation Museum curator Marilyn S. Malatare and her daughter have been indicted for stealing artifacts and selling them to pawn shops.”

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2434&Itemid=109

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[JimSEA]

Plenty of iron ore, no coal. Add that to no wheel and you have the two major hold-backs of their civilzation and science.

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[wildbill]

If they were mining this hard metal, what did they use it for? Wouldn’t some artifacts have turned up if they were smelting it?

As I recall, they still weren’t using metal swords/spears at the time of the Euro invasion.