Inger E Johansson wrote:
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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?
From memory I think the artefacts I read about were in a museum in USA
or Canada - which I can't recall as it was something I read in
passing, while looking for something else.
But you might find these interesting:
http://www.meteor.co.nz/may96_2.html
"While searching for the northwest passage in 1818, John Ross
discovered a previously unknown band of Eskimo on the northwest coast
of Greenland using a variety of cutting tools with blades of
meteoritic iron. That same year a `plate' of iron from Ohio was the
first of a series of meteoritical iron artifacts found on Hopewellian
(200 B.C. - A.D. 500) sites in the eastern United States."
"Woodworking tools such as celts, axes, and adzes were made from the
iron but apparently never used. In Ohio, a bear canine tooth was found
with a small ball of iron set into it, and chisels designed to mimic
beaver teeth have also been unearthed. Copper ear spools with an
overlay of iron foil have been found on sites in Illinois, Ohio,
Georgia, and Florida. At the Havana site in Illinois, 22 oxidized iron
beads were discovered that formed a necklace with over 1000 shell and
pearl beads."
http://www.sila.dk/History/Dorset/La...continued.html
Exchange and trade of Late Dorset
" A variety of finds from the High Arctic sites strongly indicates
that a substantial exchange network covered the region. Meteoric iron
from Northwest Greenland spread a least as far west as Bathurst Island
and Little Cornwallis Island and south to the northern part of Hudson
Bay. From the areas around Coppermine River, nuggets of natural copper
were dispersed throughout the eastern Arctic. Various kinds of lithic
materials seem to have been part of the exchange network as well."
"Sherd of a Norse iron kettle found in a 13th century Late Dorset
winter dwelling."
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/16/h16-4108-e.html
"The earliest known Thule sites in the area contain metals from yet
another source: smelted iron, copper and bronze from the Norse
colonies established during the previous century in southwestern
Greenland. Throughout the subsequent history of the Thule occupation
of Arctic Canada, stone tools were almost totally replaced by small
points and blades made from smelted metal, iron from the meteorites of
Cape York in northwestern Greenland and native copper from the
deposits in the Coppermine River region of the central Arctic."
http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/nadlok/nadloke.html
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