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Ancient Americans show metallic flair

Pieces of copper and gold foil at a Peruvian site date to 3,000 years ago, providing the earliest evidence of metalworking in the New World.

References:

Burger, R.L., and R.B. Gordon. 1998. Early Central Andean metalworking from Mina Perdida, Peru. Science 282(Nov. 6):1108.

Sources:

Richard L. Burger
Yale University
Department of Anthropology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
P.O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277

Robert B. Gordon
Yale University
Department of Geology and Geophysics
P.O. Box 208109
New Haven, CT 06520-8109

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 19, November 7, 1998, p. 292.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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