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- Title
Articles of Exchange or Ingredients of New World Metallurgy?
- Authors
Hudgins, Carter C.
- Abstract
Examines the role played by scrap copper excavated from the site of early Jamestown, Virginia, circa 1607-1617 in assisting British colony's search for and extraction of profitable New World commodities. Role of copper in barter trade between the Powhatan Indians and English colonizers; Geographical and industrial origins of the scrap copper; Metallurgical functions of the copper.
- Subjects
JAMESTOWN (Va.); COPPER; SCRAP metals; COLONIES; COLONIZATION; POWHATAN (North American people); COLONIAL United States, ca. 1600-1775; HISTORY
- Publication
Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005, Vol 3, Issue 1, p32
- ISSN
1543-4273
- Publication type
Article