American Bronze

WI Bronze Age technology made its way to the Americas? How might Native American societies (including the more advanced ones like the Olmec) have changed?
 
there already was SOME primitive metal working in americas. yellow-knife, canada, was named after a tribe that used copper to make crude blades and arrow points...
 
WI Bronze Age technology made its way to the Americas? How might Native American societies (including the more advanced ones like the Olmec) have changed?

I think that, by the time of the colonization, Bronze was being used by the Tarascans (for knifes) and by some Andean comunities. But if it was, it was only in its starts...
 
I think that, by the time of the colonization, Bronze was being used by the Tarascans (for knifes) and by some Andean comunities. But if it was, it was only in its starts...

Actually the Inca were well into their version of the bronze age when the Spaniards arrived. They were making relatively advanced bronze weapons.
 
there already was SOME primitive metal working in americas. yellow-knife, canada, was named after a tribe that used copper to make crude blades and arrow points...

There were quite a few North American tribes which used native copper and made things by hammering it into shape. No North American peoples were smelting copper, however. There were some who did smelt copper, and even bronze, in Mesoamerica and South America, such as the Tarascans in Mexico and the Inca in South America.
 
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