| Egyptian scholars know there is little other than | | | | are contained in beach deposits, with earlier |
| fiction that can be written about the civilization | | | | materials farther back from the present shore. A |
| that lived on the banks of the Nile in far more | | | | conical copper point was recovered from the |
| recent times than the beginning of the 'Old | | | | limited testing of the extensive Archaic |
| Copper Culture'. All these things are related and | | | | component. Kenyon compares it to those found |
| the old fictions are replaceable with the story of a | | | | at Farquhar Lake (Popham & Emerson 1954:18). |
| worldwide culture with trading posts in each and | | | | He also describes a stone adze with an unusual |
| every part of the world. Is there any remnant of | | | | form which he feels may have been derived |
| cultural pride in Iran that treats the ancient | | | | from Old Copper celts."(2)The next brief report |
| metallurgists of their region with a different kind | | | | raises the issue of the horse that was once |
| of respect than our history attributes to them? | | | | native to North America. It disappeared around |
| Does anyone think these nationalistic ideologues | | | | 8,000 B.C after the Carolina Bays Meteors that |
| and pedagogues of today are real and honest | | | | are responsible for many of the instrumentation |
| presenters of fact? The whole concept of | | | | effects in the lower to middle Bermuda Triangle |
| nationalism and most other 'isms' (except | | | | region. The horse may thus have actually been |
| ecumenicism) need close scrutiny. The area of the | | | | used in native copper mining of America. But we |
| Snake River in east central Minnesota may have | | | | are convinced the issue of who the natives are |
| been the site of copper mining when the glaciers | | | | that did this mining, is significantly up in the air or |
| covered the Great Lakes. Would it be possible for | | | | an outright cover-up (If you are inclined to |
| people 20,000 years ago to have been mining | | | | conspiracies other than 'LOVE' as Father Pierre de |
| these sites and lost their access due to the | | | | Chardin who worked on Piltdown and with Black in |
| glaciers? We humbly suggest this is the case and | | | | China, asked us to begin.)."1954 The Old Copper |
| that they then returned as the glaciers melted. | | | | Assemblage and Extinct Animals. 'American |
| Petaga Point and work by Peter Bleed in 1969 | | | | Antiquity' 20:169-170.Quimby analyses an |
| may offer a starting point for that kind of | | | | occurrence of deeply buried copper artifacts and |
| thinking. He wrote The Archaeology of Petaga | | | | associated animal bones near Fort Williams in |
| Point: The Preceramic Component by the | | | | southwest Ontario. The discovery, made in 1913 |
| Minnesota Historical Society."Petaga Point is a | | | | and 1916, was recorded in a geological report. |
| multicomponent site in central Minnesota near Mille | | | | Quimby reasons that the site may date to the |
| Lacs Lake. The earliest levels appear to have Old | | | | Altithermal, approximately 3500-2000 B.C., and |
| Copper affiliations. The stratigraphy of the site | | | | that the bones are those of the bison and the |
| was badly disturbed by forest clearing and | | | | extinct native horse." (3)This extinct native horse |
| modern habitation, and the presented stratigraphy | | | | is around later than other data unequivocally |
| is basically a statistical reconstruction. In this book, | | | | states the horse was extinct in North America. It |
| Bleed is the first to suggest a possible native | | | | is almost too hard to believe there would be no |
| copper source in the area of the Snake river in | | | | other horse remains over a period of even a |
| east central Minnesota."(1)This area is included in | | | | thousand years unless they were all completely |
| the culture we call Aztlan and involves Wisconsin | | | | domesticated and the bones didn't exist because |
| sites such as Reigh, Osceola and Riverside. These | | | | their owners cremated them in reverence. That is |
| sites may explain why there are no burials on Isle | | | | indeed a possibility when one considers the |
| Royale or the Superior copper mining sites to the | | | | relationship various Keltic peoples had for the |
| north. In the case of Riverside it is much later | | | | horse (but highly unlikely due to the way horses |
| according to the archaeologic data and 1045 B.C. | | | | thrive in the wild.). Might we suggest another |
| would have been a period of the Dark Ages | | | | alternative? The horses found here had been |
| when much worldwide technology was lost after | | | | brought to America to work milling machines on |
| the Trojan War. Walter Kenyon wrote about a | | | | the route to the Trent or other Ontario river |
| site on the shores of the present day Lake Huron | | | | system routes that were used once the Ottawa |
| which was further inland and relates to a time | | | | River was no longer the conduit for Great Lakes |
| when the Great Lakes were far differently | | | | water? This is at the end of the Old Copper |
| configured."The Inverhuron site, located on the | | | | culture and the location the horse was found is in |
| east shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, was | | | | close proximity to Isle Royale. |
| excavated in 1956. The archaeological materials | | | | |