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Old Copper Culture ToolsCopper tools from Northern Wisconsin, 4,000-1,200 B.C.
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| Page Title | Old Copper Culture ToolsCopper tools from Northern Wisconsin, 4,000-1,200 B.C. |
| Source Publisher | Unpublished photograph in the office of the state archaeologist, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison. |
| Source Creation Date | 4,000-12,000 B.C. |
| Digital Format | JPG |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2004 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2004 |
| Digital Identifier | TP160000 |
| Description | Copper has been mined along Lake Superior's south shore for thousands of years. This photograph shows seven artifacts from the Society's Museum collections that were produced during the era scholars call the Old Copper Culture. Dating from the early to mid-archaic period, they show that extracting copper and fashioning it into utensils predated modern mining engineers by several millenia. Old Copper Culture implements from Wisconsin and Michigan were part of a trade network that stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf Coast. The large tool in the center of the photograph is a spear point. Proceeding clockwise are an awl or punch, two projectile points, two knives and and an axe head. All of these artifacts would originally have possessed wooden shafts or handles that have disappeared over the intervening thousands of years. |
| Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Office of the State Archaeologist |
| Type | Image |
| Recommended Citation | "Copper tools from Northern Wisconsin, 4000-1,200 B.C.son, W Unpublished photograph in the office of the state archaeologist, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison. Online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=760 |
| Document Number | TP160 |
| URL | http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=760 |
| County | Ashland County
Bayfield County
Douglas County
Iron County
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| State/Province | Wisconsin; Michigan |
| Race and Ethnicity | Native Americans
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| Sub-Topic | First Peoples
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| Event Date | 4,000-12,000 B.C. |
| Event Years | 4,000-12,000 B.C. |
| Archeological Epoch | Early to Mid-Archaic |
| Archaeology | Artifacts (Antiquities)
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| Domestic Life | Implements, utensils, etc.
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| Topography | Mines and mineral resources
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| Manufacturing and Industry | Copper mines and mining
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