A Morphometric Comparison of Copper versus Stone Weapon Tips from the Old Copper Culture

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.

The Old Copper Culture in the western North American Great Lakes region is one of the few areas in the world in which people produced both copper and stone weapon tips. However, a robust quantitative comparison of these implements has, to our knowledge, never been conducted. Here, we present an analysis of 96 stone and 93 copper weapon tips that includes over 30 morphometric variables. The results of this analysis have implications for the function of stone- and copper-tipped implements as well as the cultural evolution of weapon components made from different materials.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in North America   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35860.0