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Were Prehistoric Copper Oxhide Ingots manufactured on the Mississippi coast near the mouth of the Mississippi River?

Post author By Ancient America
Categories | ash, Bronze Age, Cedarland, Claiborne, Coper Mining, Copper, Copper Culture, Egyptian, Great Lakes, Ingots, Isle Royale, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Superior, Louisiana, Michigan, Minoan, Mississippi River, Mounds, Oxhide, Oxhides, Poverty Point, Sault Ste Marie, Waubansee Stone
Post date | February 28, 2015

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

Tags copper, copper culture, Ingots, isle royale, Keweenaw Peninsula, Oxhides

Composition Analysis of Michigan Copper

Post author By Ancient America
Categories | Aztalan, Bronze Age, Copper, Copper Culture, float copper, ingot, Isle Royale, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Lahontan, Lake Superior, London’s British Museum, Lovelock Cave, melting, Nevada, oxhide molds, petroglyph, smelting, Uluburun Ingots
Post date | December 9, 2014

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

Tags copper, ingot, smelted

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