Mining For Ancient Copper

Author : Erez Ben-Yosef
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9781575069647
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining for Ancient Copper written by Erez Ben-Yosef and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new studies dedicated to Professor Beno Rothenberg, focused on copper in antiquity in the Near East, the eastern Mediterranean, and the British Isles.

Author : John R. Halsey
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703890
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan written by John R. Halsey and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. “This volume represents an exhaustive compilation of the early written and published accounts of mines and mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It will prove a valuable resource to current and future scholars. Through these early historic accounts of prospectors and miners, Halsey provides a vivid picture of what once could be seen.” —John M. O’Shea, curator of Great Lakes Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Author : Susan R. Martin
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328439
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Power written by Susan R. Martin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the archaeological record of copper mining in the Lake Superior area.

Author : Roy Ward Drier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region written by Roy Ward Drier and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Whittlesey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019387009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior written by Charles Whittlesey and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1861, 'Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior' is a pioneering study of the prehistoric copper mines that were operated by Indigenous peoples in what is now the Great Lakes region of North America. Drawing on archaeological evidence and ethnographic accounts, Charles Whittlesey provides a detailed picture of the tools, techniques, and social organization of these early miners. A fascinating and invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of Indigenous technology and pre-Columbian America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Charles Whittlesey
Publisher : Washington : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior written by Charles Whittlesey and published by Washington : Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1863 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bode J. Morin
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572339861
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of American Copper Smelting written by Bode J. Morin and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout world history, copper has been a significant metal for a vast number of cultures, from the oldest civilizations on record to the Bronze Age and Greek and Roman antiquity. Though replaced by iron as the primary metal for tools and weapons in ancient civilizations, copper found new resurgence in the nineteenth century when it was discovered to have particularly high thermal and electrical conductivity. Copper mining quickly escalated into a large-scale industry, and because of its vast reserves and innovative mining techniques, the United States seized the reins of global production with the opening of significant copper mines in Tennessee and Michigan in the 1840s and Montana in the 1870s. Copper-mining prosperity and America’s dominance of the industry came with a heavy environmental price, however. As rich copper deposits declined with increased mining efforts, large deposits of leaner ores—oftentimes less than one percent pure—had to be mined to keep pace with America’s technological thirst for copper. Processing such ore left an inordinate amount of industrial waste, such as tailings and slag deposits from the refining process and toxic materials from the ores themselves, and copper mining regions around the United States began to see firsthand the landscape degradation wrought by the industry. In The Legacy of American Copper Smelting, Bode J. Morin examines America’s three premier copper sites: Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, Tennessee’s Copper Basin, and Butte- Anaconda, Montana. Morin focuses on what the copper industry meant to the townspeople working in and around these three major sites while also exploring the smelters’ environmental effects. Each site dealt with pollution management differently, and each site had to balance an EPA-mandated cleanup effort alongside the preservation of a once-proud industry. Morin’s work sheds new light on the EPA’s efforts to utilize Superfund dollars and/or protocols to erase the environmental consequences of copper-smelting while locals and preservationists tried to keep memories of the copper industry alive in what were dying or declining post-industrial towns. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the American history of copper or heritage preservation studies, as well as historians of modern America, industrial technology, and the environment.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claudio Giardino
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789691796
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Magan – The Land of Copper written by Claudio Giardino and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the geography and environments of Oman, its rich copper ore deposits and the ancient mining and smelting techniques, and it also includes an overview of the physical properties of the different metals exploited in antiquity and of the analytical techniques used in archaeometallurgy.

Author : Roger L. Jewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mines of Kitchi-Gummi written by Roger L. Jewell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lay flat laminated, four color cover, Black on white interior.