Prehistoric copper mining in Michigan : the nineteenth-century discovery of ancient diggings in the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale /

Prehistoric copper mining in Michigan : the nineteenth-century discovery of ancient diggings in the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Halsey, John R., author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropological papers museum of anthropology, University of Michigan ; number 99
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula -- Antiquities. Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula. Archaeology -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula -- 19th century. Archaeology. Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Michigan -- Upper Peninsula. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681397

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ISBN:	9780915703906 0915703904 9780915703890
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Summary:	"Discusses how nineteenth-century explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and how that discovery ultimately led to the destruction of the prehistoric archaeological sites they found"--
Other form:	Print version: Halsey, John R. Prehistoric copper mining in Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan, 2018 9780915703890

Table of Contents:

Prehistoric copper mines
Early reports
Samuel O. Knapp and the Minesota mine
Who wrote the Knapp report?
What discoverers saw in the nineteenth century
Who were the prehistoric miners?
The fate of the prehistoric artifacts
Conclusion
Afterword / by Henry Wright.