Determining Geologic Sources of Native American Copper
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Inger E Johansson wrote:
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Inger E Johansson wrote:
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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.
What about the copper, and also silver/gold, analysed from Icelandic
sites?
I do know of copper artefacts found in Greenland, but haven't seen any
analysis done on them.
I read four or five years ago that some of the artefacts were to be sent to
Denmark for analyzing. Haven't been able to figure out which institute or
university that was to perform the tests. Those I know in Roskilde and
Copenhagen have no clue about it. Do you have any contacts to ask?
Inger E
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