Lake Superior First Nations made copper tools 2,000 years before the pyramids says researcher

By Rick Garrick – TB News Watch

The Ontario Archaeological Society’s (OAS) 2024 Annual Symposium featured presentations on the prehistoric copper culture around Lake Superior and residential schools as well as workshops and tours on Oct. 25-27 in Thunder Bay.

“I love prehistoric copper, the people that created it, the fact that not enough people know about it and it’s so hugely important,” says Robin Hammer Mueller, a researcher from Michigan. “That’s what started the first metalworking in North America and people aren’t aware of that.”