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<blockquote data-quote="Neanderthal" data-source="post: 3638154" data-attributes="member: 3746"><p>Antler and stone was used to knap it rather than copper. Although copper from the Great Lakes region was utilized by the Old Copper Culture up to 6,000'ish years ago, it wasn't used to knap with as much as modern knappers do. Antler and stone was preferred. Copper was brought to Oklahoma as trade goods, but primarily by the Misssissippian groups. Quite a bit of copper was found in Spiro Mounds in LeFlore County.</p><p></p><p>Here's an axe that we have at the museum (It's currently on loan to the Cowboy Museum in OKC for a traveling Spiro exhibition). It's a woodpecker effigy, meant to be either a pileated, or the now-extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker with the mouth open. The handle is made from Persimmon wood and the bit is made from copper, it has shell inlaid for the eyes. This was found in a cache, in a woven mat container, in the central mound (Craig) by Pocola Mining Co. diggers in 1935.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]223227[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neanderthal, post: 3638154, member: 3746"] Antler and stone was used to knap it rather than copper. Although copper from the Great Lakes region was utilized by the Old Copper Culture up to 6,000'ish years ago, it wasn't used to knap with as much as modern knappers do. Antler and stone was preferred. Copper was brought to Oklahoma as trade goods, but primarily by the Misssissippian groups. Quite a bit of copper was found in Spiro Mounds in LeFlore County. Here's an axe that we have at the museum (It's currently on loan to the Cowboy Museum in OKC for a traveling Spiro exhibition). It's a woodpecker effigy, meant to be either a pileated, or the now-extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker with the mouth open. The handle is made from Persimmon wood and the bit is made from copper, it has shell inlaid for the eyes. This was found in a cache, in a woven mat container, in the central mound (Craig) by Pocola Mining Co. diggers in 1935. [ATTACH type="full" alt="spiroaxe.jpg"]223227[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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