Michigan Copper in the Mediterranean

Grahamhancock.com ^ | 8-2011 | Jay Stuart Wakefield

[Renfield]

The Shipping of Michigan Copper across the Atlantic in the Bronze Age (Isle Royale and Keweenaw Peninsula, c. 2400BC-1200 BC)

Summary

Recent scientific literature has come to the conclusion that the major source of the copper that swept through the European Bronze Age after 2500 BC is unknown. However, these studies claim that the 10 tons of copper oxhide ingots recovered from the late Bronze Age (1300 BC) Uluburun shipwreck off the coast of Turkey was “extraordinarily pure” (more than 99.5% pure), and that it was not the product of smelting from ore. The oxhides are all brittle “blister copper”, with voids, slag bits, and oxides, created when the oxhides were made in multiple pourings outdoors over wood fires. Only Michigan Copper is of this purity, and it is known to have been mined in enormous quantities during the Bronze Age....

[Sawdring]

I have been to the mines on Isle Royale. It is a great place to backpack.

[ThanhPhero]

Read Barry Fell America BC. This has actually been known for a long long time. Every ancient copper ingot can be assayed and their origin determined by impurities, Much of the copper ingots in Europe came from the Great Lakes area. There are, in fact, many extensive ancient mines in the upper Peninsula and in Canada neqr the lake. It has been estimated that the tonnage taken out of those mines was many many- times the amount of copper used indigenously in the western hemisphere.

It has been known but not spoken of because many famous archaeologists' careers were made building the narrative that there was absolutely no cross Atlantic contact. Even the irrefutable viking sites were only grudgingly accepted after long years with the proviso that Viking occupation was necessarily temporary and had NO historical impact and was the only such contact possible or thinkable. Those who thought or think differently have found it harder to get digs financed.