H. Kory Cooper, a Purdue assistant professor of anthropology, holds a raw copper nugget from Alaska's Copper River region. In August, Cooper and a graduate student will demonstrate to Ahtna youth from ...

A Purdue University professor of archaeology plans to study copper tool use among ancient Ahtna people in Alaska's Copper River basin, according to an article at spacemart.com. The effort, funded ...

Photograph of exhibit of collection of materials from ancient cooper mining operations of the Lake Superior copper region, U.S. National Museum, 1962. Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative number ...

Less copper mixed with the slag suggests more-efficient smelting, so by tracking changes in the slag, Ben-Yosef and his colleagues could track the progress of a technology that powered the ancient ...

A Marquette tour guide tells us about copper mining in the Upper Peninsula — which dates back 7,000 years at the Porcupine Mountains and Keweenaw Peninsula.

Pictured: Solomon's Pillars in the Timna Valley, Israel. Ancient copper mining and smelting activities here have been linked to the Biblical King Solomon.

"The environmental pollution resulting from copper production at King Solomon's Mines was minimal and spatially restricted – posing no threat to the region's residents, either in antiquity or today.