ISBN:
978-0-915703-89-0
ISSN:
0076-8367
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 336 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Anthropological Papers, University of Michigan 99
Keywords:
USA Michigan
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Indianer, Nordamerika
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Prähistorie, Am
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Prähistorie
;
Bergbau
;
Bergbau, prähistorisch
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Kupfer
;
Bibliographie
Abstract:
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 copper there. In the nineteenth century, explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in this region. They used those "ancient diggings" as a guide to establishing their own, much larger mines, and in the process, destroyed the archaeological record left by the prehistoric miners. Using mining reports, newspaper accounts, personal letters, and other sources, this book reconstructs what these nineteenth-century discoverers found, how they interpreted the material remains of prehistoric activity, and what they did with the stone, wood, and copper tools they found at the prehistoric sites.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- Foreword by John M. O'Shea -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Prehistoric Copper Mines -- Chapter 2: Early Reports -- Chapter 3: Samuel O. Knapp and the Minesota Mine -- Chapter 4: Who Wrote the Knapp Report? -- Chapter 5: What Discoverers Saw in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 6: Who Were the Prehistoric Miners? -- Chapter 7: The Fate of the Prehistoric Artifacts -- Conclusion -- Afterword by Henry T. Wright -- Appendix 1: Reporters and Discoverers -- Appendix 2: Lake Superior Copper Explorers 1819-1874 -- Appendix 3: Historic Copper Mines Founded on "Ancient Diggings" -- Appendix 4: Profiles -- Appendix 5: Further Readings -- Bibliography
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [193]-336
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