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Isle Royale and the counties that line the northwest coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are called Copper Country because of the rich deposits of native c... Front Matter Download; ... Lake Superior Copper Explorers 1819–1874 Download; XML; Appendix 3:: Historic Copper Mines Founded on "Ancient Diggings" Download; XML; Appendix 4 ...
smithsoniancontributionstoknowledge. 155 ancientmining shoresoflakesuperior. by charleswhittlesey. [acceptedforpublication,april,,1862.]
Furthermore, various dating techniques are constantly pushing the fabrication of advanced copper tools further back into America's ancient past. Diorama of Anishinaabe people mining copper near Lake Superior (Ellenm1/CC BY-SA 3.0)
Copper use in the regions surrounding Lake Superior represents one of the oldest examples of metalworking (Figure 1), yet the timing and pattern of past copper mining …
Introduction. The regions surrounding Lake Superior in the United States, including Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, are home to widespread copper deposits that were extensively mined in ancient times by societies associated with the Old Copper Complex (Martin, 1999, Martin and Pleger, 1999) (Fig. 1).
Holmes WH (1901) Aboriginal Copper Mines of Isle Royale, Lake Superior (American Anthropologist New Series). New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Crossref. ... (1999) Wonderful Power: The Story of Ancient Copper Working in the Lake Superior Basin. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. Google Scholar. Mason RJ, Mason CI (1961) …
The ancient copper mines of Lake Superior . Author(s): Jacob jr. [from old catalog] Houghton. Year: 1879. Summary. This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module ...
In fact, the south side of Lake Superior was home to 5,000 copper mines that date to at least 3,500 BCE. And, the extraction of copper yielded millions of pounds from that time period, yet only a very small portion of this copper can be found in Native American artifacts. ... the age of these ancient mines had been a "long-standing enigma ...
In addition to the proposed new mines and mineral exploration in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, there are two new copper mines in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that are both located close to Lake Superior. The first is the Eagle copper-nickel mine proposed by Kennecott Minerals, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, located in the Yellow Dog Plains.
The newly designated historic site covers about 200 acres on Lake Superior's largest island, including multiple small pits where copper was mined and an apparent settlement where Native people ...
The Keweenaw Rift jutting up into the middle of Lake Superior is the world's most important native copper mine and would go on to be exploited for decades. More than 140 copper mines were established by the end of the 19th century, and they left behind millions of tons of waste from the extraction process.
2 ANCIENT MINING probably been separated by the same cause that gave rise to that formation Avhich geologists call the "drift." The agent, whatever it was, that broke off fragments from the rocks, not only on Lake Superior but further north, and transported them in the shape of boulders, sand, and gravel, as far south as the valley of the Ohio, …
It may be more reasonable to speculate that rather than refining and transporting a few tons of copper at least 7 or 8000 miles from Lake Michigan, through Lake Huron, then Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and …
An analysis of sediment cores drawn from McCargoe Cove on Isle Royale adjacent to a high concentration of ancient copper mines show increases of lead (leached from mine tailings and vaporized when miners heated copper to shape the metal), copper, and potassium (a by-product of the fires used for mining and annealing) after 1860 AD and …
The Old Copper Complex (OCC) refers to the production of heavy copper-tool technology by Archaic Native American societies in the Lake Superior region. To better define the timing of the OCC, we evaluated 53 (eight new and 45 published) radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates associated with copper artifacts and mines.
In his 1879 text entitled Ancient Copper Mines of Lake Superior, John Jacob Houghton relates, beginning on page 141: On the south shore of Lake Superior the works of the ancient miners extend over a district of country comprising what is known as the Trap Range, having a length of one hundred and fifty miles through Keweenaw, …
Now, new research suggests that Isle Royale's mining boom peaked about 6000 years ago and left a legacy of aquatic …
Wonderful Power: The Story of Ancient Copper Workings in the Lake Superior Basin (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999) ... Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region Published privately by the Authors: Calumet, MI 1961 Collection of 25 papers, mostly reprints of earlier publications ...
The archipelago of islands in Lake Superior that comprise Isle Royale National Park, or Minong as it is known to the Ojbiwe, has been officially recognized for its cultural resources by the federal government. ... narrow inlet of Lake Superior on Isle Royale that receives drainage from a watershed that contains numerous ancient …
It is not clear who these ancient miners were, but we do know that the mining abruptly ended in 1,200 BC. This conveniently coincides with the end of the Bronze Age in Europe. The copper located …
18. Whittlesey, C., Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1862, reprinted 2007 Gustavs Library, Davenport Iowa, no ISBN 19. Henderson, J., The Science and …
Ancient Copper Mining. Copper mining on Isle Royale is no recent thing--in fact it has spanned a period of more than 4,500 years. When man first arrived in the New World, perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 …
Ten years later, Jean Talon, the man in charge of the colony of New France, sent Louis Joliet to "find the copper mine from which pieces of pure copper had been brought." Although he failed to locate it, …
Native Americans mined copper on the shores of Lake Superior in prehistoric times. Between 4,000 and 1,200 B.C., copper jewelry and implements from Wisconsin and Upper Michigan were part of a trade network that stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf Coast, giving rise to the name "Old Copper Culture." ... Ancient copper mines are ...
Ancient mining on the shores of Lake Superior: Author: Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886: Place of Publication: Washington, D.C. Source Publisher: Smithsonian Intitution: ...
The mystery of who mined massive copper deposits along the shores of Lake Superior more than 5,000 years ago has provided the fuel for many outlandish tales. Wisconsin Historical Society. In the …
There is a rich lore about ancient copper mining in the Lake Superior region. Most of it is highly speculative and is unsupported, but fervently believed. ... These early mines found native copper in veins at the surface. They left behind pits and dumps. Mining by Europeans started in the 1800s on both the Keweenaw and Isle Royale.
The mines in Lake Superior are the only known Bronze Age mines to contain copper with a purity exceeding 99%. Many European artifacts from this time …
