Prehistoric Native Copper Technology in Northwest North America: Innovation, Diffusion, and Heritage ...

• Main Authors: Cooper, Harold, Pike, Matthew, Hunt, Garett
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: copper; element; material analysis; pxrf; Anchorage; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Yukon; Prehistoric Native Copper Technology in Northwest North America: Innovation, Diffusion, and Heritage; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2804xm4b; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2804XM4B

This dataset consists of the results of compositional analysis of copper and copper allow artifacts using portable x-ray fluorescence. Though the emphasis of this study is on the use of geological native copper prior to the arrival of non-Indigenous (European) metal, the artifacts included in this study are from archaeological contexts spanning the last 2,000 years (AD 1-1900). Data is displayed in tables as weight percent with the first column showing artifact and site number. The artifacts analyzed are from Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Included in these data are artifacts made from native copper and industrial smelted trade copper and copper alloys. The artifacts included in this dataset were accessed at the following institutions: University of Alaska Museum of the North (including some material previously accessed at the University of Alaska Anchorage), Royal British Columbia Museum, University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, University of Victoria, ...