Reverse Engineering the Past: How Experimental Archaeology Provides the Clues for Understanding the Mysterious Demise of North America’s Copper Culture
Mary Schiller Myers School of Art -Folk Hall Auditorium, University of Akron 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH, United StatesThe Old Copper Culture (4000-1000 B.C.) stands out as a unique event in archaeologists’ global understanding of ancient metallurgy—here, copper metallurgy developed, but then “disappeared”. For over three millennia, Archaic hunter-gatherers around the North American Great Lakes made utilitarian implements out of copper, only for these items to decline in prominence during the Archaic to […]