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Metallographic and Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Copper-based Metals from Fort Ouiatenon (2023)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon was established by the French in 1717 in what is today northwest Indiana to protect their interests in the region and engage in trade with Indigenous People in the Wabash River valley. Excavations at Ouiatenon in the 1960s and 70s recovered thousands of artifacts including many metal trade goods and numerous fragments of sheet copper and copper alloys. Copper sheet...