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Acknowledgments

We would like to offer a special thanks to Carlos Elera, Director of the Sicán National Museum, for providing the antimony beads for the archaeometric study; to Izumi Shimada, Director of the Sicán Archaeological Project, for providing us with his accurate comments; to geologists Daniel Plasencia and Charly Asto, and architect Saúl Castro Racchumí for their contributions and for guiding us, along with the team of museum workers, especially Henry Diaz, to the Cerro Barranco Colorado and Cerro Mellizo mines to obtain the antimony mineral samples that were analyzed in this study.

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Carrizo, P.S. et al. (2021). Special Case Studies on Reverse Engineering. In: Carrizo, P.S. (eds) Reverse Engineering of Ancient Metals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72842-7_13

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