Recently was published the second volumen of Revista de Arqueología Histórica Argentina y Latinoamericana, and there are an article about a mining site in Mendoza, Argentina. If you want I can send you the article in PDF format.


 
Odlanyer Hernández de Lara
www.cubaarqueologica.org




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De: Robert Dean <[log in to unmask]>
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Enviado: jueves, 29 de enero, 2009 16:04:40
Asunto: the archaeology of underground workings

I think I've exhausted the sources available to me at this point, so I
thought I'd put this out to the list - in case anyone has any input on the
subject that might guide me to more info.

I'm studying historic mining extraction sites in southcentral Alaska, and
have been trying to find any archaeologists, and other non-mine engineers,
who have studied underground (or surface hard-rock) workings as part of an
analytic process (using morphology, measurements, etc of underground
workings) to understand some research question of an
archaeological/anthropological nature - processual or interpretive. I have
found many studies of mining sites, but a great many focus on households,
and sometimes buildings - whatever the case, it is rarely the mine workings
that are treated, and I have found very little on underground workings.

At this point I've found only a few articles dealing with extractive and
milling workings in general....Not sure what I am missing.

Are there some CRM or agency reports, which go beyond a descriptive/national
register approach, that have come out of federal/state mine remediation in
California, Idaho, Montana, etc. that just haven't shown up in my searches?
Some regional journals that aren't listed on the search tools I've used?

Thanks in advance if anyone can help me with this one-

Max Dean
University of Alaska, Anchorage Grad Student
Archaeologist, Chugach NF