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Wonderful power : the story of ancient copper working in the Lake Superior Basin
- Title
- Wonderful power : the story of ancient copper working in the Lake Superior Basin / Susan R. Martin.
- Author
- Martin, Susan R., 1947-
- Publication
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1999.
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Details
- Description
- 286 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Long before the arrival of European settlers, Native Americans in the Lake Superior basin mined and worked copper and traded it well beyond the region. They directed white settlers to copper lodes and explained the mineral's significance and "wonderful power." Wonderful Power examines the archaeological record to relate the story of that unique industry. Susan Martin has collected critical but scattered information about the uses of ancient copper to address long-standing puzzles over how long it had been used, where it was mined, and who these ancient coppersmiths were.
- Series Statement
- Great Lakes books
- Uniform Title
- Great Lakes books
- Subject
- Paleo-Indians > Superior, Lake, Region
- Indian copperwork > Superior, Lake, Region
- Indians of North America > Superior, Lake, Region > Antiquities
- Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric > Superior, Lake, Region
- Copper implements, Prehistoric > Superior, Lake, Region
- Outils de cuivre > Supérieur, Région du lac
- Cuivre > Mines et extraction préhistoriques > Supérieur, Région du lac
- Dinanderie des Peuples autochtones > Supérieur, Région du lac
- Indiens d'Amérique > Industrie > Supérieur, Région du lac
- Peuples autochtones > Supérieur, Région du lac > Antiquités
- Indiens du paléolithique > Supérieur, Région du lac
- Antiquities
- Copper implements, Prehistoric
- Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric
- Indian copperwork
- Indians of North America > Antiquities
- Paleo-Indians
- Kupferbergbau
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Kupferschmiedekunst
- Indiens > Amérique du Nord > États-Unis. > Lacs
- Native Americans > Industries > Superior, Lake, Region
- Native Americans > Antiquities > Superior, Lake, Region
- Superior, Lake, Region > Antiquities
- Supérieur, Région du lac > Antiquités
- Lake Superior Region
- Oberer See > Region
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.
- Contents
- 1. An Ancient People Extracted Copper from the Veins of Lake Superior of Whom History Gives No Account / Charles C. Whittlesey -- 2. All Phenomena, Natural and Artificial, Material and Immaterial, Mundane and Celestial / William H. Holmes -- 3. What Has Particularly Recommended Their Labors to Me Is Their Love of Truth / Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin H. Davis -- 4. Of Heaps of Rubble and Earth along the Courses of the Veins -- 5. Implements, Ornaments, and Objects of Faith of Great Variety / William H. Holmes -- 6. They Must Have Been Numerous, Industrious and Persevering, and Have Occupied the Country a Long Time / Charles C. Whittlesey -- 7. Wonderful Power.
- ISBN
- 0814328067
- 9780814328064
- 0814328431
- 9780814328439
- LCCN
- 98045330
- OCLC
- ocm40073961
- 40073961
- SCSB-822680
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library