Economic, Social, and Ritual Aspects of Copper Mining in Ancient Peru: An Upper Ica Valley Case Study

فصل «Economic, Social, and Ritual Aspects of Copper Mining in Ancient Peru: An Upper Ica Valley Case Study» از کتاب «Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology» بر «تاریخ اقتصاد و سازمان معدن مس» در حوزه «مدیریت پروژه، مالی و ریسک صنعت معدن» تمرکز دارد. مباحث اصلی آن شامل اقتصاد معدن و ارزش‌گذاری است. این فصل برای تحلیل بازار، ارزیابی سرمایه‌گذاری، سیاست‌گذاری، مدیریت ریسک و برنامه‌ریزی راهبردی کاربرد دارد و ارتباط میان نظریه، انتخاب روش، شاخص‌های عملکرد و محدودیت‌های صنعتی را روشن می‌کند.

We use survey data on ancient mining obtained from the upper Ica valley in southern Peru to examine the complex and rich relationships that ancient Andean people maintained with the landscape and the resources it yielded. The results of this study indicate that mining in the Andean past was embedded in ontologies where economics, status, ritual responsibilities, and relationships of reciprocity between people and landscape intersected. The archaeological data show that mining of copper and copper-bearing minerals, while practiced for some 2 millennia in the region, became increasingly important and formal in the Late Intermediate Period, when new strategies for the legitimization of inequalities were adopted.