Editing Bronze Age (section)

== Americas ==
{{See also|Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America|Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica}}
The [[Moche culture]] of South America independently discovered and developed bronze smelting.<ref>{{Cite web |title=El bronce y el horizonte medio |url=http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/publicacionesbanrep/bolmuseo/1996/jldi41/jldi01a.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417064326/http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/publicacionesbanrep/bolmuseo/1996/jldi41/jldi01a.htm |archive-date=17 April 2009 |access-date=22 March 2010 |website=lablaa.org}}</ref> Bronze technology was developed further by the [[Inca]] and widely used for utilitarian objects and for sculpture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gutierrez |first=Antonio |title=Inca Metallurgy |url=http://incas.homestead.com/inca_metallurgy_copper.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131034920/http://incas.homestead.com/inca_metallurgy_copper.html |archive-date=31 January 2009 |access-date=24 September 2016 |publisher=Incas.homestead.com}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=January 2024}} A later appearance of limited bronze smelting in western Mexico suggests either contact of that region with [[Andean civilisations]] or separate discovery of the technology. The [[Calchaquí]] people of northwestern Argentina had bronze technology.<ref>Ambrosetti, El bronze de la región calchaquí, Buenos Aires, 1904.[https://archive.org/stream/arqueologaargen01ambrgoog#page/n4/mode/2up]. Retrieved 28 March 2015.</ref>