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Sican tumi, or ceremonial knife, Peru, 850–1500 CE. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction, purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century. Indigenous Americans had been using native metals from ancient times, with recent finds of ...
Contents. Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas. The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other ...
The European Battle Axe culture used stone axes modeled on copper axes, even with moulding carved in the stone. [16] Ötzi the Iceman, who was found in the Ötztal Alps in 1991 and whose remains have been dated to about 3300 BC, was found with a Mondsee copper axe. A painting of a Copper Age walled settlement, Los Millares, Spain
In 2008, a copper axe was found at Pločnik that was dated to 5,500 BC. This pushed back the start of the Copper Age by 500 years. A study published in December 2013 reported an in situ discovery of a tin bronze foil from Plocnik dated to c. 4650 BC. This is the oldest tin bronze so far found in the world - a significant technological advance.
Tlaximaltepoztli. The tlaximaltepoztli ( tlāximaltepoztli; in Nahuatl, tlaximal =carpentry and tepoztli =metal axe) or simply tepoztli was a common weapon used by civilizations from Mesoamerica which was formed by a wooden haft in which the poll of the bronze head was inlaid in a hole in the haft. It was used for war or as a tool.
The Copper Age, also called the Eneolithic or the Chalcolithic Age, has been traditionally understood as a transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, in which a gradual introduction of the metal ( native copper) took place, while stone was still the main resource utilized. Recent archaeology has found that the metal was not ...
The Old Copper complex or Old Copper culture is an archaeological culture from the Archaic period of North America's Great Lakes region. Artifacts from some of these sites have been dated from 7500 to 1000 BCE. [1] [page needed] It is characterized by widespread copper artifacts, including tools and weapons, as well as ornamental objects.
Kevin Cooper (prisoner) Kevin Cooper (born Richard Goodman; January 8, 1958) [ 1] is an American man currently imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison 's death row. [ 2] Cooper was found guilty of four murders in the Chino Hills area of California in 1983. Cooper's conviction has garnered repeated attention from both Nicholas Kristof in the New ...