#old copper complex

[baebeylik]

Copper axe heads. Discovered in the Great Lakes region of the United States. From the Old Copper Culture. Old Copper Culture was active throughout the Great Lakes region from 7500 to 1000 BCE. They mined copper (hence the name) and made arrowheads, axes, fishhooks, bowls, religious iconography and much more with the metal. As time went on the metal became less practical for tool production and took on a more ornamental purpose.

The ancient axes pictured above are located in the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM).

[baebeylik]

Artifacts from the Old Copper Complex culture. Spearheads, knife, and an awl.

3000 to 1000 BCE

Wisconsin Historical Museum

[baebeylik]

Replica copper arrowheads made by archaeologist Michelle Bebber of Kent State University. Modeled after the copper artifacts of the Old Copper Complex around the Great Lakes region.

Kent State University Experimental Archaeology Lab.

[speedwithteeth]

for christmas i would like some cold-shaped copper spearpoints from the Late Archaic period, northern Wisconsin, please :)

[tlatollotl]

Copper bead necklace

Old Copper Complex. Menominee County, Michigan

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[tlatollotl]

Old Copper Complex copper tools

Western Great Lakes. 4000 BC to 1000 BC