TY - GEN AU - Mead, Charles Williams. TI - Prehistoric Bronze in South America T2 - Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; U1 - 669 PY - 1915/// CY - New York PB - American Museum of Natural History, KW - MINERIA KW - MINERALES KW - BRONCE KW - ANTIGUEDADES N1 - Fotocopia N2 - The discovery by primitive man that certain kinds of stone or mineral would yield a metal on application of heat, made possible an advance in civilization relatively as important as any that has followed. Metal implements superseded the more elumsy and inadequate tools of stone , and metallurgy became an established science. Broze, an alloy of copper and tin, is obtained by smelting these metals together in proportions which may be varied according to the nature of the product required ER -