Aspects of Early North American Metallurgy
Resource type
Book
Creator (person)
Wayman, Michael L.
King, J.C.H.
Craddock, Paul
Date published
1992
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.
Editor
Wayman, Michael L.
King, J.C.H.
Craddock, Paul
Publisher
British Museum
Place of publication
London
Keywords
Collection