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Cutting weapons were used by the Native Americans for combat as well as hunting. Tribes in North America preferred shorter blades and did not use long cutting weapons like the swords that the Europeans used at the time. Knives were used as tools for hunting and other chores, like skinning animals. Knives consisted of a blade made of stone, bone ...
Pages in category "Native American tools" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Babiche;
From this collection of sites, known colloquially as the "Indian Diggings", Native Americans quarried, worked into tools and blanks, and exported this stone to the wider Mississippian world. The chert found here was one of the major exported raw materials of the Mississippian culture and its distribution and procurement was one of the largest ...
South American metal working seems to have developed in the Andean region of modern Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, and Argentina with gold and native copper being hammered and shaped into intricate objects, particularly ornaments. [1] [5] Recent finds date the earliest gold work to 2155–1936 BC. [1] and the earliest copper work to 1432–1132 BC.
Native American tools (13 P) Pages in category "Indigenous tools of the Americas" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
A native American grinder stone tool or 'metate' from Central Mexico. Metate and mano. The earliest traditions of stone sculpture in Costa Rica, including ceremonial metate, began in late Period IV (A.D. 1–500). Metate from the Nicoya/Guanacaste region have longitudinally curved and rimless plates.
The Old Copper Complex of the Western Great Lakes is the best known, and can be dated as far back as 9,500 years ago. [4] [1] Great Lakes natives of the Archaic period located 99% pure copper near Lake Superior, in veins touching the surface and in nuggets from gravel beds.
Standard projectile point terminology used in describing Native American projectile points: a – point or tip, b – edge, c – blade or face, d – step, e – tang, f – base, g – notch, h – barb, i – shoulder.