By, Henriette Mertz Originally published in Ancient American Magazine. Reprinted with permission from The Midwestern Epigraphic Society Journal, Beverley Moseley The Newberry tablet no longer exists. Found on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, it represented only one of thousands of inscribed artifacts recovered from mounds dotting the state from roughly 1890 to Read More
By, Jay S.Wakefield, jswakefield@comcast.net Copper: According to American Indian oral tradition, Michigan copper was mined in antiquity by “red haired white-skinned ‘marine men’ who came from across the sea”. Tens of thousands of pits, up to 30’ deep, were mined using fire-setting and stone hammers, with an estimated half a billion tons of pure Read More
Michigan Copper in the Mediterranean, The Shipping of Michigan Copper across the Atlantic in the Bronze Age (Isle Royale and Keweenaw Peninsula, c. 2400BC-1200 BC) J.S. Wakefield, jayswakefield@yahoo.com Photos coming soon for the article. Apologies from the AA staff. Summary Recent scientific literature has come to the conclusion that the major source Read More