Copper was a useful metal even before iron, silver, and

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Copper was a useful metal even before iron, silver, and gold metals were extracted and used from their ores and used as tools, utensils, jewelry, and artwork. Copper was smelted by heating copper ores with charcoal to high temperatures as early as 8000 years ago. Thousands of pieces of scrap copper have been unearthed in Virginia, where in the 1600s the colonists might have traded this material for food. Compare and contrast the processing and use of copper in those older civilizations with today.

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