Copper culture shapes ancient history
The allure of copper. The power of copper.
People in the prehistoric Hopewell civilization of southern Ohio managed to get copper from distant points – the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale and Ontario’s Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior – as much as 750 miles away.
And as far back as 2,000 years ago.
What made copper so treasured that it motivated gargantuan efforts to obtain and use it for such items as tools, headpieces, beads and breastplates?
“That has an element of spirituality and questing, going on an odyssey, a quest of some sort. Bringing it back was a tangible personal power,” says archaeologist Mark Seeman, a retired professor at Kent State University and the lead author of a new study with colleagues from Ball State University on Hopewell use of copper.
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