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by nanusanjay on November 27th, 2004

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Which was the first metal known to man?

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  • by LaserFalson on July 21st, 2005

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    Since the question is about the knowledge of the metal and not its usage as a tool, the answer is copper. In Cyprus, for example, copper was used often for many things like the the creation of little figurines. In the Americas the timeline works a bit different perhaps, while they didn't discover copper until much later, they still discovered it and utliized it without being introduced from outside sources. On an excavation last summer I found a copper awl (which is a tool) in Minnesota that can be dated as early as 800 B.C. While I was excavating in Cyprus however, I found a copper mining site that dated to 1100 B.C. and they had long since moved through bronze and iron, but still were using copper, too. It really is a broader question that it at first sounds, but over and over people keep finding copper first.

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