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Recent studies demonstrate a far earlier emergence for the Old Copper Complex, by at least 9500 years ago, as well as an earlier end, by about 5400 years ago...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ericans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths
“This month in Radiocarbon, the team reports that the most reliable dates, combined with the sediment data, indicate the Old Copper Culture emerged at least 9500 years agoand peaked between 7000 and 5000 years ago. That makes it at least as old, and perhaps older, than copper-working cultures documented in the Middle East, where archaeologists have documented a copper pendant believed to be 8700 years old”.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ericans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths
“This month in Radiocarbon, the team reports that the most reliable dates, combined with the sediment data, indicate the Old Copper Culture emerged at least 9500 years agoand peaked between 7000 and 5000 years ago. That makes it at least as old, and perhaps older, than copper-working cultures documented in the Middle East, where archaeologists have documented a copper pendant believed to be 8700 years old”.
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