Archaeological research at a principal source of obsidian in ancient Peru.

Contact: quispi@MapAspects.org

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• Investigaciones en la fuente de la obsidiana tipo Quispisisa, Huancasancos-Ayacucho por Daniel A. Contreras, Nicholas Tripcevich, y Yuri I. Cavero Palomino. Investigaciones sociales 16.28 (2012): 185-195.
• Fieldwork took place in July-August 2012 and labwork in Ayacucho in October 2012.
• Our research appeared in a 2011 publication Quarrying Evidence at the Quispisisa Obsidian Source, Latin American Antiquity (22-1).
• Also see Tripcevich and Contreras "Archaeological Approaches to Obsidian Quarries" in 2013 Tripcevich and Vaughn, 2013 Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes.

Nicholas Tripcevich
Archaeological Research Facility
University of California - Berkeley
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Daniel A. Contreras
Institute for Ecosystem Research
Kiel University
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Yuri Cavero Palomino
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad de San Cristobal de Huamanga
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