Mining and Its Economic Implications for Andean Societies

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of trends and limitations in ethnohistorical and archaeological studies of mining in the Andes from the Archaic to the colonial period. It also discusses the relationship between mining practices and larger economic and political systems, including a consideration of infrastructure and exchange networks, as well as human and nonhuman participants. This review of the organization and transformation of mining practices and exploited materials through time suggests that the earliest mining in the Andes was informal and seasonal, carried out by itinerant miners and mobile groups, with archipelago communities also exploiting mineral resources since at least the Late Intermediate period. Different forms of economic control developed over mines and mining labor during the Middle Horizon (under the Wari and Tiwanaku polities), the Late Horizon (under the Inca Empire), and the colonial period (under the Spanish). These observations demonstrate how the archaeology of mining can serve to illuminate ancient social and political organization.
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Authors Michelle Young
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.70
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.70
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