iron/ metal [and other loans and calques]

[Alan Hartley]

> Thanks, I appreciate the correction!  I should have said that the only
> cases I could (vaguely) recall in conjunction with Oneota and other
> Mississippian sites were small "ornamental" items.  I have the impression
> that Old Copper Complex is older, though I'm really fairly ignorant of it
> - you don't happen to recall the dates and approximate area, do you?

Old Copper Culture is Archaic, a few thousand years BP: my memory fails
me, which is embarrassing to a former ranger on Isle Royale, where a
good deal of the "old copper" was mined (in native form), as it was also
on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan.

Alan