America's Lost Copper Found in the Last Place Anyone Expected — What the Ojibwe Recorded

For over twenty years, i have posited that central source of copper for the European Bronze Age was the lake superior deposits.  when this hoard was discovered, testing supported that argument.

Othersise, I also argued  that for thousands of years prior to Columbis, the great circle route operated in the Atlantic.  This route was anchored on Bimini, the Isle of lewis, bristol and Sevile.  all this linked to the Mississippi and Poverty point and even the Andes  and Veracfruz.  And it flowed into the Levant.

what is happening as we watch is this model been filled in with hard data.  This item really brings the story up to date in a way that the academic world must stop ignoring.

what is nice is that this is associated with the time of nefertiti

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America's Lost Copper Found in the Last Place Anyone Expected — What the Ojibwe Recorded

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334 views 15 Jul 2026

A shipwreck off the coast of Turkey has been sitting at the bottom of the Mediterranean for over three thousand years, carrying ten tons of raw copper packed into hundreds of standardized ingots. When researchers finally traced the chemistry of that copper back to its source, a portion of it refused to match anywhere in the ancient world. Not Cyprus. Not Sardinia. Not the Sinai. The closest isotopic match ever proposed sits on the other side of an ocean, in the ancient mining district around Lake Superior. This documentary follows that mystery from both directions at once. From the excavation of the Uluburun shipwreck and the lead isotope analysis that first exposed the gap, back to 1863, when federal geologist Charles Whittlesey documented thousands of ancient mine pits already carved into Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, decades before modern mining companies ever arrived. And from there to eighteen ninety-four, when the Wisconsin Historical Society recorded Ojibwe oral tradition describing organized strangers who came from across the water for the copper, worked it with techniques that match the physical evidence in the mines almost exactly, and eventually stopped coming. None of these three pieces, taken alone, proves anything. Together, they describe a documented shortfall in Bronze Age copper supply that has never been fully explained, a source with the exact scale and purity to fill it, and a recorded memory of exactly the kind of operation that would have been required. Is that enough to say Lake Superior copper crossed the Atlantic three thousand years ago? Or is the real answer still waiting somewhere closer to home, in a Mediterranean deposit nobody has identified yet? Disclaimer: This documentary explores archaeological research, nineteenth-century government reports, and Indigenous oral tradition treated as a legitimate historical source in its own right. Some of the interpretations discussed remain the subject of genuine, ongoing academic debate, and this video does not claim to resolve them. It is intended to lay out the available evidence clearly and encourage viewers to think through the question themselves.