Pre-contact South American Metallurgy is far more complex than you might believe....
@NORTH_o2 This artifact is from the El Dorodo exhibit in the Bogota Gold Museum in Colombia if I’m not mistaken
@NORTH_o2 Gold and silver metallurgy hardly count Those metals are very easy to mine and work with
@NORTH_o2 Pretty looking Trinkets=/= metallurgical complexity.
@NORTH_o2 The amounts of gold and silver documented during the Spanish conquest of the Inca makes my head spin.
@NORTH_o2 Always impressed by the Moche metal work, they definitely had something going on which seemed akin to electroplating.
@NORTH_o2 Idk, it looks like someone with no imagination copied what everyone else was doing, like those folks with Jeeps with little ducks along the windshield.
