Re: North America's Bronze Age?

johansson <1732johansson@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

First I would like to point to this interesting article:
Levine Mary Ann,

Mary Ann Levine, that is.

Determining the Provenance of native copper
artifacts from Northeastern North America: evidence from instrumental
neutron activation analysis
Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 34, Issue 4, April 2007,
page 572-587

Great show-off!
There is not even an abstract available.


and ask if it's not about time to recognise that also the so called
New World had a Bronze Age which in some cases seems to have started
if not earlier so at least as early as in the so called Old World?
Reason for my question is that Levine found chemical characterization
of copper from 13 geological deposit dating from Late Archaic ~5000
BP to Early Woodland's - 2000 BP. If the copper is 'gained' from more
than a few geological deposits, this seem to indicate either that
people with knowledge of what to look for and how to 'process'/use
the Copper at least might have made same 'finding' as done in parts
of the Old World where Bronze first were found/made from Copper
melting in charcoal fires. Provided of course that at least some
tinoxide existed in Copper raw material as it did here in the Old
World.

Inger E

Copper is not bronze.
And AFAIK there never was a NA bronze age.

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pa.

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