Pre-Historic Copper Mining in North America's Great Lakes Pt. 2.

Revisiting the prehistoric copper industry of the Great Lakes region. This video looks at how pre-industrial peoples were able to find and mine out copper, and how they were using it to make tools.

For the first video on Great Lakes Coppersmithing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8nAJd_F8ck
For the third part on the hypothesized ancient transatlantic bronze trade:
https://youtu.be/CBN6HfzCRcU

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Further Reading:
Susan R. Martin 1999:
Wonderful Power: The Story of Ancient Copper Working in the Lake Superior Basin


Milwaukee Public Museum
https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/anthropology/online-collections-research/old-copper-culture/artifacts