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Archeological Perspectives on the Diffusion of Technology: An Example from the Ohio Trap Rock Mine Site (1996)

David B. Landon (Author)
Timothy A. Tumberg (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 40-57

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40968353.

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Copper and copper industry Buildings, Industrial History of technology, as a discipline Mills and Milling, Stamping Mines and mining Industrial archaeology Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology Archaeology 19th century Michigan (U.S.) United States

The Ohio Trap Rock Site is a mid-19th century copper mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Archaeological excavations at the company's stamp mill uncovered portions of the crushing and washing system where copper was concentrated. Residual copper in the stamp-sand sediments preserved buried wooden components of the mill to an exceptional degree, including the remains of two Cornishstyle, circular, convex wooden buddles. Circular buddles were the leading edge of ore dressing technology in the 1850s. This technology was not well known in North America, and the Ohio Trap Rock mine provides insight into the diffusion of Cornish copper-processing technology. [1999 Norton Prize winner]

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