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  "abstract": "The Atacama Circumpuna´s Western Slope contains significant copper deposits and has the highest density of pre-Hispanic mining evidence in the Southern Andes. However, the same does not hold true for metallurgical evidence, which remains poorly documented. The metallurgical practices of the highland pastoralist-caravanning and mining communities of the region (2,400–4,500 m asl) took place during the Late Intermediate and Late Periods (1000–1536 AD), extending from Collahuasi in the north to Catarpe in the south. In this study, we characterize the metallurgical operations of the area in terms of the reduced minerals, the metal obtained, the fuels employed, and the combustion structures, allows us to propose the existence of a metallurgical tradition in the Atacama Circumpuna´s Western Slope, oriented toward the production of unalloyed metallic copper.",
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    {
      "name": "Ariadna Cifuentes"
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    {
      "name": "Valentina Figueroa"
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    {
      "name": "Pía Sapiains"
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    {
      "name": "Daniela Grimberg"
    },
    {
      "name": "Benoît Mille"
    },
    {
      "name": "Thierry Bataille"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cristián González-Rodríguez"
    },
    {
      "name": "Diego Salazar"
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    {
      "name": "José Berenguer"
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  "doi": "10.31048/srspgg92",
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    "1852-060X",
    "1852-4826"
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  "landing_url": "https://hal.science/hal-05764755v1",
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  "licence": "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0",
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  "pdf_url": "https://hal.science/hal-05764755/document",
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  "published": "2026-08-31",
  "publisher": "Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba",
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  "title": "“(Not) Gone with the Wind”: the Metallurgical Tradition of the Atacama Circumpuna´s Western Slope (Atacama Desert, Northern Chile)",
  "title_text": "“(Not) Gone with the Wind”: the Metallurgical Tradition of the Atacama Circumpuna´s Western Slope (Atacama Desert, Northern Chile)",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:17:41Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/8z0mbmb8cjgk1",
  "venue": "Revista del Museo de Antropología",
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