Lake Superior First Nations made copper tools 2,000 years before the pyramids says researcher – TBNewsWatch.com

THUNDER BAY – The Ontario Archaeological Society’s (OAS) 2024 Annual Symposium featured presentations on the prehistoric copper culture around Lake Superior and residential schools as well as workshops and tours on Oct. 25-27 in Thunder Bay.

“I love prehistoric copper, the people that created it, the fact that not enough people know about it and it’s so hugely important,” says Robin Hammer Mueller, a researcher from Michigan. “That’s what started the first metalworking in North America and people aren’t aware of that.”

Mueller delivered a presentation on Oct. 27 during the Gitchigami’s Call: A Collaborative Approach to Native Copper of the Archaic in the Northern Lake Superior Basin session.

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