Speaker: María Florencia Becerra National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina Green and blue minerals and rocks played significant roles in multiple dimensions of pre-Columbian Andean societies. Their extraction and circulation shaped human–environment interactions in the region since ancient times. Among these minerals, copper held a particularly important place due to its role in …

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Speaker: María Florencia Becerra National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina Since 2004, GAEPuNo (Archaeology and Ethnohistory Group of the Northern Puna) has been conducting research in the northern highlands of extreme Northwestern Argentina, in Jujuy Province. One of the main lines of research concerns mining and metallurgy during pre-Columbian and Colonial times. This …

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