Old World Metals Traded on Alaska Coast Hundreds of Years Before Contact
![Metal and metal/ivory composite artifacts from Cape Espenberg: a bone fishing lure with iron inset eyes, a piece of bone fishing tackle with a copper hook, an eyed copper needle, a small fragment of sheet copper, a cylindrical bead and buckle fragment. Image credit: H. Kory Cooper et al. Old World Metals Traded on Alaska Coast Hundreds of Years Before Contact](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image11-06-2016-18.55.48.jpg)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two leaded bronze artifacts found in northwestern Alaska are the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America prior to contact with Europeans, according to new Purdue University research. “This is not a surprise based on oral history and other archaeological finds, and it was just a matter of […]