A Revaluation of the Old Copper Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2562282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne W Mile, Suzanne Whitelaw Miles (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 240-247 |
| Publication date | 1951-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/276784 |
| OpenAlex | W1994242988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 16 |
Collections of nearly 20,000 copper implements of twenty-one general types, heavily patinated, all surface or near surface finds without apparent pottery association, found in maximum concentration in Wisconsin, have raised questions of their relative age and probable cultural affiliations. In 1942, after Ritchie's discovery of copper implements in pre-pottery Laurentian levels, W. C. McKern (1942, p. 167) formulated a provisional hypothesis. He defined the tools as the production of a pre-Woodland, preceramic people, centered in Wisconsin and spreading into adjacent territory, and subsumed all copper implements, not attributable to known cultures, as cases of the Old Copper Industry
Archaeology · Biology · Copper · Copper mining · Geography · Metallurgy · Pottery · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis · Ecology · History · Materials Science
New archaeometallurgical perspectives on the Old Copper industry of North America
Controlled experiments support the role of function in the evolution of the North American copper tool repertoire
The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP)
Is that Awl? Experimental Insight into Native Copper Working and Innovation
Archaic hunters of the Upper Ohio Valley
Overcoming disciplinary solitude
Melted Copper from the Archaic Midwest (1000 BC)
Cold Hammered Archaeology
Radiocarbon Dating of Copper-Preserved Organics
Innovation and Prestige Among Northern Hunter-Gatherers
Suzanna Whitelaw Miles 1922-1966
Method and Theory in American Archeology II
Selected Papers from the "American Anthropologist" 1946-1970
A History of American Mining
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Medieval American Art
Discovery of the Chavín Culture in Peru
Gold and Silver from Southern Peru and Bolivia
The Metallurgy of the Southern Coast of Peru
Gold Ornaments of Chavín Style from Chongoyape, Peru
A Tentative Classification of the Prehistoric Cultures of Minnesota
Antiquities of the New England Indians
Progress at Zaculeu, Guatemala
Archaeological Investigation in Central Alaska
Algonkin Metal-smiths
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1955 - 2023 (69) |
| Highly cited | No |