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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:42:57 +0000
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On 03/11/2024 23:35, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 20:59:45 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> That level of technology is called “chalcolithic”. That is, they mainly
>> use fine stone tools, but they have also found a limited use for copper,
>> which can be found lying around pure in some places, is easily workable
>> but too soft to do much with. And they haven’t yet developed smelting
>> technology to extract metals from ores and create harder alloys out of
>> them, like bronze.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_Mesoamerica
> 
> South and Central America advanced beyond hammering out found copper.
> There isn't much evidence in North America.

Bronze needs tin, and there might not have been much around.

Iron is a *huge* step up.

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