The Chivay obsidian source (15.6423° S, 71.5355° W, 4972 masl) is the geological origin of a chemically distinct type of obsidian that is found throughout...
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Ten km to the east, and 1,500 metres above the town of Chivay lies the Chivay obsidian source. Thermal springs are located 3 km from town; a number of...
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Machu Picchu (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
unmodified obsidian nodules at the entrance gateway. In the 1970s, Burger and Asaro determined that these obsidian samples were from the Titicaca or Chivay obsidian...
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Isla del Sol (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
them were from the Chivay obsidian source which is located in the Colca Canyon, Department of Arequipa. The presence of Chivay obsidian is clear evidence...
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obtain Chenopodium. Jiskairumoko Soro Mik'aya Patjxa "Exotic Goods, Chivay Obsidian, and Sociopolitical Change in the South-Central Andes (eScholarship)"...
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Chivay obsidian source. The other two artifacts were assigned to the Alca obsidian source. Both sources are located in the Arequipa Region. The Chivay obsidian...
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Callalli District (category Articles with Spanish-language sources (es))
Its capital, Callalli, lies on an ancient trade route for Obsidian that ran from Chivay to Lake Titicaca around 1800-200BC. The earliest findings in...
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