Tocopilla Museum

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Tocopilla Museum (Spanish: Museo de Tocopilla) is a municipal archaeology museum in the Chilean city of Tocopilla located in the coast of Atacama Desert. Among its collections are chisels and hatchets but despite being in a zone of colonial and Pre-Hispanic metallurgy there are no metal species from the city or its surroundings in the collection.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Salazar, Diego; Figueroa, Valentina; Mille, Benoit; Morata, Diego; Salinas, Hernán (2010). "Metalurgia prehispánica en las sociedades coster as del norte de Chile (quebrada Mamilla, Tocopilla)". Estudios Atacameños (in Spanish). 40: 23–42.