Aspects of Early North American Metallurgy

Abstract

• Studies of pre-European metal objects in the British Museum. They include including six North West Coast `coppers' and fourteen iron daggers and knives, collected in the 18th century; three Inuit harpoon blades from the Canadian Arctic; and 121 chiefly copper objects dating from 1000BC to AD600, from the 1845-7 Squier and Davis excavations of Adena and Hopewell culture sites in the Ohio area. Analysis of the metals with comments on their manufacture.