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

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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

Poverty Point, The Manufacturing of Copper Oxhides for the Atlantic Copper Trade

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Categories | Atlanteans, Atlantis, Bronze Age, Copper Oxhides, Earthworks, Egyptians, Five Nation's, Iroquois, Knossos, Late Archaic, Louisiana, Macon Ridge, Megalithic Culture, Minoan, Mississippi River, moundbuilding, Olmec, Oxhides, Phoenicians, Poverty Point, Ramses III, Sea Peoples, The American Museum of Natural History, Uluburun Shipwreck
Post date | January 14, 2015

Bronze Age Town & Gulf Ports on the Copper Trail Open-fire manufacturing of Copper Oxhides (NE Louisiana, & Mississippi c.2000-700 BC) J.S. Wakefield, jayswakefield@yahoo.com Photos coming soon, apologies from AA staff. Summary The “Late Archaic” Poverty Point earthworks in Louisiana are the earliest and largest monuments in prehistoric North America. The site Read More

Tags bronze age, copper, copper culture, Oxhides, Poverty Point

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