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    Provincial Inca metallurgy in northern Chile: New data for the Vina del Cerro smelting site
    (2020) Garrido, Francisco; Teresa Plaza, Maria
    Metal artifacts were one of the most relevant wealth finance items for the political economy of the Inca empire. Inca provincial expansion in the Collasuyu has largely been explained by the need to intensify mining to satisfy their metallurgical demand. Despite the evidence for many mines and metallurgical activities during the Late Horizon in the southern Andes, it is still not clear how their production was organized and articulated.