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Thread #139023 Message #3185788
Posted By: Bill D
11-Jul-11 - 09:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Scienti(fi)c heresies
Subject: RE: BS: Scienti(fi)c heresies
"...the bulk of the copper must have gone overseas..."
"...there are archaeologists who claim Lake Superior copper can be found in tools and artifacts from all over the ancient world..."
My...what interesting assumption are embedded in those remarks. Saying "the bulk MUST have" assumes it was not only 'mined' but used...
And there are archaeologists who claim almost anything when confronted with a strange set of 'data'.
Archeology is an area with a high amount of competition to discover new finds....yet this Michigan stuff seems to have been barely investigated.
It seems to me that the question "...why did these mysterious copper miners leave behind no traces whatsoever of their culture other than the tools they used to mine?" can have a number of possible answers...including that there WAS no serious 'culture' doing real 'mining'.
It will be interesting to see what develops once pure speculation wears thin.