Copper Trade Network from Canada to South America
Author(s): Monette Bebow-Reinhard
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Pre-contact copper manufacture and trade in the Americas is poorly understood. To remedy this, over the last decade I have compiled a master database of over 85,000 pre-contact copper artifacts recovered from across the Americas, with source materials from museums, online, and private collections. I present an overview of the pre-contact copper industry in the Americas, focusing on its cultural significance since the Archaic period, its geographic extent, and its persistence in the archaeological record. This database, along with the regional copper manuals I am currently producing using its data, are invaluable tools for archaeologists who work in the Americas and particularly in the Great Lakes region.
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Copper Trade Network from Canada to South America. Monette Bebow-Reinhard. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474408)
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Geographic Keywords
North America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -168.574; min lat: 7.014 ; max long: -54.844; max lat: 74.683 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 35775.0