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Battle axe blade
The interesting thing about this axe blade is the material used: copper. There is evidence of mining in the Andean region since at least the fourth century AD. Usually the desired material - mostly gold - was collected near the surface of the earth or washed from the rivers. Copper was extracted by mining, but the galleries driven into the earth were not very deep. The ore was smelted in tower-shaped furnaces, the huayrachina. The Inca Empire operated several major mining centres, including one in northern Chile, where copper was mined. Today Chuquicamata in the north of Chile is the largest copper mine in the world.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Inka-Kultur
- Object type
- Beil
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.6 cm
Width: 7.3 cm - Material/Technique
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Copper
moulded
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- M 32673
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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15th - 16th century AD.
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Peru
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Change of physical control
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when
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1989
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- Provenance
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There is no confirmed provenance for this object.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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