Inger E Johansson wrote:

"Seppo Renfors" skrev i meddelandet
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Inger E Johansson wrote:

"Seppo Renfors" skrev i meddelandet
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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.

What about the copper, and also silver/gold, analysed from Icelandic
sites?


Sorry read "Iceland" as "Greenland" before. The copper (or bronze) and
silver items I have seen from Iceland have been imported from the old
world.

export of silver on at least one ship F R O M Iceland in 1430's? Definitely
not from the Old World.

All I'm saying is that *I* am no aware of other than old world silver
- mainly in the form of coins.

I am aware of there being silver among the copper in the Great Lakes
area. I'm aware copper was traded/taken from Hudson Bay and Coppermine
river area to Greenland. I have also seen claims of Greenland
meteorite iron being found in the Great Lakes area (among other
places).

Given the above and that the Norse were in Greenland they may well
have traded for it from the native people - either on NA continent
itself or with the Inuits. That it has found its way to Iceland that
way. Only I know of no actual evidence of it being the case, no matter
how plausible it is.

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SIR - Philosopher unauthorised
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