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[โ€“] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 7 points 3 months ago

My fixation this morning is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Copper_complex

Apparently there were some people making tools out of copper around the Great Lakes as far back as the Archaic Period?? (8000-1000 BC)

I have to find a good source to read about this, because I've never heard about it before, and that's insane.