Inger E Johansson wrote:

"Parallax" skrev i meddelandet
om...

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I knew somebody who was doing trace elemental analysis of Cu
artifacts found in Apalachee mound areas of N. Florida using PIXE
analysis back in 1978. If I remember correctly, the source seemed to
be the Great Lakes region.

In an article which had good ref for almost everything I found a short
sentence which had no ref at all to it. That short sentence claimed that
Ancient(!) copper artifacts analysed from sites all over the world showed
that the copper origin from the Great Lake region. If that's right or wrong
I don't know since that one sentence wasn't possible to follow back to
analyse-tests at all. What I would like to know is if anyone among the
metallurgic specialist ever come accross copper artifacts where tests showed
or at least pointed to Great Lake copper origin?

Inger, to my knowledge the copper I have seen analysed from "ancient"
copper artefacts in Europe/Asia Minor show "local" sources - ie
Europe, Eurasia and the like.

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