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hucktard t1_jbb3b3z wrote

Reply to comment by chainmailbill in Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests by geoxol

People have been mining and using copper in the Americas for like 8000 years though.

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chainmailbill t1_jbb845r wrote

I should have been more specific when I said metallurgy; I’m talking about turning ore to metal via smelting, and then alloying those metals with other metals to make useable materials for tools and weapons.

There’s no evidence that smelting existed in any capacity in the precolombian Americas.

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hucktard t1_jbcsih2 wrote

Yeah, sorry to be so pedantic. I recently learned that fact about copper mining in North America and it blew my mind a little so I had to comment.

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