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The Old Copper Complex of the Western Great Lakes is the best known, and can be dated as far back as 9,500 years ago. [4] [1] Great Lakes natives of the Archaic period located 99% pure copper near Lake Superior, in veins touching the surface and in nuggets from gravel beds.
After the collapse of the Mississippian way of life in the 1500s with the advent of European colonization, copper still retained a place in Native American religious life as a special material. Copper was traditionally regarded as sacred by many historic period Eastern tribes. Copper nuggets are included in medicine bundles among Great Lakes ...
The park contains an ancient burial ground used by the Old Copper Complex Culture of early Native Americans, between 5,000 and 6,000 B.C.E. during the Copper Age.It was rediscovered in June 1952 by a 13-year-old boy who unearthed human bones while playing in an old quarry.
Some nineteenth-century archaeological finds (e.g., earth and timber fortifications and towns, [44] the use of a plaster-like cement, [45] ancient roads, [46] metal points and implements, [47] copper breastplates, [48] head-plates, [49] textiles, [50] pearls, [51] native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) were ...
A common artifact found in Late Prehistoric or Protohistoric components is a serpent figurine made of copper; in early Historic times these may be made from imported European copper. [10] [13] In general, the prehistoric Native American religious system was based on animism and polytheism.
Native American Heritage Month offers a good opportunity to learn about the Native peoples who have lived in Wisconsin for thousands of years.
The Red Ocher people were an indigenous people of North America. A series of archaeological sites located in the Upper Great Lakes, the Greater Illinois River Valley, and the Ohio River Valley in the American Midwest have been discovered to be a Red Ocher burial complex, dating from 1000 BC to 400 BC, the Terminal Archaic – Early Woodland period.
In 1947, the Wisconsin State Legislature passed a resolution requesting the State Conservation Commission to purchase Aztalan. 120 acres (490,000 m 2) were purchased to this end in 1948, and the Wisconsin Archeological Society and the Lake Mills-Aztalan Historical Society donated their holdings. Aztalan opened to the public in 1952 as Aztalan ...