Thanks for the comment, Simon. Please keep us updated about your book, send reviews and links. This is 'our' group and there seems to be admirable humility...
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Susan
beldingenglish
Mar 2, 2010 9:42 pm
Welcome to newcomer Larry LeCain. We are pleased that you have joined our membership. Please feel free to share with us more information about yourself,...
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Martin Carriere
metismartin
Mar 3, 2010 3:40 am
Welcome Larry. The spelling on your LeCain caught my interest. Do you have the genealogy or history attached to hte spelling. Â Best, Â Martin Carriere ... ...
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minnesotastan@...
minnesotastan
Mar 3, 2010 4:58 pm
I can't remember whether I've posted this here before, but it's so useful that I'll risk possible duplication... The journal American Antiquity is a...
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Vince
v_barrows
Mar 4, 2010 2:05 am
When looking at the evidence of copper working in America, one is struck with the possibility that smelting and annealing were required to create copper celts,...
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Ted Sojka
tedsojka
Mar 4, 2010 2:22 am
In colonial times one of the tax stamp items was pottery, and it had top be made in England. The coastal regions are full of clay banks and wood fired kilns...
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joe white
joe_white@...
Mar 4, 2010 2:27 am
O'siyo Vince, We know that charcoal, and bone are used to increase the temp. Bellows are of great assistance with these mixtures of charcoal, and bone. We have...
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Judi Rudebusch
judi_rudebusch
Mar 4, 2010 3:08 am
Vince, a quick question: how hot would coal make a fire? Thnaks, Judi...
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Ted Sojka
tedsojka
Mar 4, 2010 3:29 am
judy, with coal or its byproduct coke, you can melt iron....
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Vincent Barrows
v_barrows
Mar 4, 2010 3:55 am
Judi; Methane Burns at 1150° C - 1250° C http://www.doctorfire.com/flametmp.html Coal burns at 371° C -1090°C http://nepacrossroads.com/about2551.html Oil...
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Vincent Barrows
v_barrows
Mar 4, 2010 4:01 am
PS bone burns at 600° C- 800° C http://web.mac.com/linnog/Fire_Arch/Bone.html ... From: Vincent Barrows <v_barrows@...> To:...
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Ted Sojka
tedsojka
Mar 4, 2010 2:39 pm
This fellow has done it with coal. I believe he teaches at the foundry at the U of Minn College of Art. There group is studying archeological...
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conner6343@...
Mar 4, 2010 4:05 pm
Ted: American archaeologists are still ignoring overwhelming evidence that copper was melted and cast into those big copper "celts" found in prehistoric...
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Ted Sojka
tedsojka
Mar 4, 2010 7:27 pm
In the story I sent about the copper workshop found at Cahokia in Illinois, one of the people mentioned is working on a Masters in Metallurgy and she had quite...
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Susan
beldingenglish
Mar 5, 2010 9:37 am
William (and All), Since many new members have joined the past several months, there was no title listed or link to the book you were referring to, and a...
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Susan
beldingenglish
Mar 5, 2010 4:30 pm
Something we do periodically at this site is to include our founding principles, and suggestions from another site we find helpful in promoting...
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ancient_waterways_soc...
Mar 6, 2010 2:05 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ancient_waterways_society group. File...
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Susan
beldingenglish
Mar 6, 2010 6:59 pm
Vince, Intriguing article you uploaded today to our Files </group/ancient_waterways_society/files>; section, the short article w/photos about the odd...
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starbats
Mar 6, 2010 9:58 pm
I'd give 10 to 1 odds that it is a just a glacial till rock. It appears to be far from the perfect sphere described, appearing rather asymetrical in form. ...
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Vince
v_barrows
Mar 7, 2010 3:58 am
Joe White; all; The following is some information about the Mount Pisgah Figurines. Providence: Haywood County, Mount Pisgah, North Carolina. Excavated from...
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Vince
v_barrows
Mar 7, 2010 4:38 am
If it is glacial till chert, this type of material "was being heavily exploited by Stone Age peoples." ...
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Vincent Barrows
v_barrows
Mar 7, 2010 4:51 am
Assuming coal was used in smelting, is there any evidence found in the Americas of coal mining? Or coal lined fire-pits? The following link shows an early...
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Martin Carriere
metismartin
Mar 7, 2010 5:30 am
There is evidence and modern understanding of working with wet and dry woood to increase the temperature of what(the rocks) you are heating. Our seers still...
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conner6343@...
Mar 7, 2010 1:50 pm
Charcoal was used as fuel in the Ohio prehistoric furnaces. These furnaces are far from the coal mining region. Small amounts of charcoal were found at the...
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conner6343@...
Mar 7, 2010 5:15 pm
The copper native Americans used in pre-Columbian times was not smelted. Native (pure) copper from the Lake Superior copper region was used. It is pure...
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Judi Rudebusch
judi_rudebusch
Mar 7, 2010 5:42 pm
Hello, When one thinks of the earmarks of the copper to follow its trail... I am wondering if earmarks are also there for following the trail of the coal found...
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Ted Sojka
tedsojka
Mar 7, 2010 5:50 pm
Mr. Conner, The pure float copper has many impurities making it very diffiucult to work. See my post about the native copper site of a week ago. The story...
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Vince
v_barrows
Mar 8, 2010 2:31 am
Here is a link to an article from JSTOR about Smelting copper in the American Southwest. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2561620...
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Susan
beldingenglish
Mar 9, 2010 7:33 pm
Does anyone know how to access/copy full JSTOR articles? No success for me in the research department of the local public library. Long involved with folks...
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Dave Goudsward
dgoudsward
Mar 9, 2010 8:24 pm
JSTOR usually available at a local college or through their remote access with a valid university library card. I think it's a little pricey for most public...
