With very minor exceptions (a few copper hatchets and spear heads in the Great Lakes region) the peoples of the Americas remained at the neolithic level of technology up until the time of the European contacts. A glance at such cultures as the Iroquois, Pueblo?, and Maya? shows that a culture may be highly sophisticated in many ways without knowledge of the use of metals.
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With very minor exceptions (a few copper hatchets and spear heads in the Great Lakes region) the peoples of the Americas remained at the neolithic level of technology up until the time of the European contacts. A glance at such cultures as the Iroquois, Pueblo?, and Maya? shows that a culture may be highly sophisticated in many ways without knowledge of the use of metals.
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