Precontact Native Copper Innovation in the North American Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast
Author(s): H. Kory Cooper; Matthew Pike; Garett Hunt
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Precontact Indigenous copper technological practices within the North American Northwest vary along regional, cultural, and temporal axes. After being screened for smelted metals and alloys using pXRF compositional data, we identified multiple significant patterns of technological specialization, innovation, and adaptation along all axes of variation, coinciding with the movements and interactions of different regional groups and societies as well as global climatic and colonial pressures.
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Precontact Native Copper Innovation in the North American Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast. H. Kory Cooper, Matthew Pike, Garett Hunt. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 473664)
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min long: -169.453; min lat: 50.513 ; max long: -49.043; max lat: 72.712 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 37116.0