Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 22:43:56 No. 9254
>>9252 >A lot of new anthropological work has been done in this field in recent decades that has not yet entered public consciousness. Any recs? I am especially interested in stuff about current day Latinamerica.
Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 23:05:34 No. 9255
>>9253 Did they use cyanide to harden the copper?
Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 23:17:50 No. 9256
>>9254 >Any recs? 1491 is a good starting point
it's 2 hole continents and millennia of history though
>>9255 IDK don't think you need to harden copper for most uses. The main method was cold hammering since copper is comparatively malleable.
Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 23:18:50 No. 9257
>>9256 I only ask because many people in Europe died due to cyanide hardened copper tools
Anonymous 2022-01-05 (Wed) 16:18:46 No. 9264
Anyone have a legend for the OP map?
Anonymous 2022-01-06 (Thu) 18:11:38 No. 9277
>>9264 Not aware if there is a legend or not. It was hard to find a map of both Americas that had more than a few cultures/ethnicities on it. This one was a WIP attempt by somebody to map pre-Columbian ethnic groups to help people write alternate history. They got banned from the community though so IDK if there was a more complete or labeled version.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/bronze-age-new-world-v2-0.222514/page-5 I didn't want to use it for the OP image until after looking for a while I realized that there just weren't (easy to find) good maps of all the Americas showing the people who lived there. So it's kind of representative of how overlooked the subject is. :-\
Anonymous 2022-01-06 (Thu) 18:29:50 No. 9278
>>9277 >>9264 Actually now that I have found the source page and read through the thread, I see that it is in fact an alternate history map rather than a historical one. What a sad statement indeed. Most maps that have more than a handful of cultures, languages, etc are restricted to only one continent or region. It's difficult to find an all-inclusive map showing anything significant at all.
Here's 2 maps for North an South, but missing Central for instance.
The NA map is from wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#Pre-Columbian_era The SA map is from a redditor who was annoyed that wikipedia only had NA in the above wikipedia article.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5nmpjq/distribution_of_language_families_in_precolumbian/