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A RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTARY BY KAREN OLSEN BRUHNS, WILLIAM E. BROOKS, AND DEBORAH TRUHAN ON “ECUADORIAN CINNABAR AND THE PREHISPANIC TRADE IN VERMILION PIGMENT: VIABLE HYPOTHESIS OR RED HERRING?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2017

Richard L. Burger ,
Kris E. Lane  and
Colin A. Cooke
Richard L. Burger
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (richard.burger@yale.edu)
Kris E. Lane
Affiliation:
Department of History, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA (klane1@tulane.edu)
Colin A. Cooke
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada (cacooke@ualberta.ca)
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Abstract

Our LAQ paper concluded that cinnabar pigment found by archaeologists in northern Peru was produced at Huancavelica in south-central Peru. In contrast, Bruhns and her colleagues suggest the mines near Azogues in southern Ecuador were an important cinnabar source for prehispanic Ecuador and Peru. In their commentary, they introduce new historic and geologic information to support their view, but a critical analysis demonstrates that it does not undermine our conclusions.

Nuestro manuscrito publicado recientemente en LAQ concluyó que el cinabrio encontrado por los arqueólogos en el norte de Perú fue producido en Huancavelica, en el centro-sur de Perú. En contraste, Bruhns y sus colegas sugieren en su comentario que las minas cercanas a Azogues, en el sur de Ecuador, eran una importante fuente de cinabrio para Ecuador y Perú prehispánicos. En su comentario, introducen nueva información histórica y geológica para apoyar su propuesta, pero un análisis crítico demuestra que sus resultados no socavan nuestras conclusiones.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 611 - 613
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Copyright © 2017 by the Society for American Archaeology 

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Bruhns, Karen Olsen, Brooks, William E., and Truhan, Deborah 2017 Looking at a Map Might Help: A Comment on Burger et al., “Ecuadorian Cinnabar and the Prehispanic Trade in Vermilion Pigment: Viable Hypothesis or Red Herring?” Latin American Antiquity, https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2017.46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burger, Richard L., Lane, Kris E., and Cooke, Colin A. 2016 Ecuadorian Cinnabar and the Prehispanic Trade in Vermilion Pigment: Viable Hypothesis or Red Herring? Latin American Antiquity 27:22–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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