Here are some more from north dakota on the missouri river. This pic is from a diff guy who posted it in the stone artifact section. The guy has over 400 of these he has found around there over the years. Notice the solid copper cast sword incuding the handle on the bottom. Im convinced these ancient people where more intelligent than we give them credit for.
Bum Luck said:I was NOT making a statement about their intelligence. There is a huge difference between intelligence and skill sets. If anything, I think they were more intelligent than we are, for many reasons. I've had many conversations about this with anthropologists. Think about it this way: we couldn't have biologically 'evolved' much in two generations, but most folks you ask would say we are much smarter than our grandfathers. Not true. Two could be 10 or 20 generations and so what?
Some of these copper items look European. The sword in particular.
You make a good point, yet my question is why would the Europeans make swords of solid copper when they had the knowledge and skills to use iron, steel, or even brass or bronze to make such weapons. All of these metals would be much stronger than copper. Yet all we find in North America from the ancients is stone and copper weaponry. Makes more sense to me that they were made right here on U.S. soil where raw pure copper abounds by the hoards.