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No, not ore, that would involve transporting too much useless rock vast distances, which would as you say involve heavy logistics, what was discovered was "Sheepskin" shaped finished Ingots made from copper that could be tied by trace elements to a specific pit mine in Michigan. Roasting copper ore
and making copper ingots isn't exactly Rocket science! but even with modern economical transporting ore across oceans isn't usually practical, except in the case (sometimes) with aluminum ore, because the thing there is the energy required (Ever wonder why Alcoa Built their big plant near Niagara Falls?). Iron ore is usually transported for the same reason, because it is often easier to move the ore to the coal, (this is why there are steel mills in Allentown and Pittsburg, The mills are there because they had rivers for transport and the required Metalurgical coal was mined nearby)
It used to be that Anthropologists regarded Oceans as barriers, while ancient people saw them as efficient highways! And the Atlantic is easy to cross if you understand wind and current patterns better than Christopher Columbus did...
You might also find that Okinawan people, traveling like or with Polynesian seafarers "colonized" the western shores of south America Circa 10,000 years ago... this one might appear in a web search!
and making copper ingots isn't exactly Rocket science! but even with modern economical transporting ore across oceans isn't usually practical, except in the case (sometimes) with aluminum ore, because the thing there is the energy required (Ever wonder why Alcoa Built their big plant near Niagara Falls?). Iron ore is usually transported for the same reason, because it is often easier to move the ore to the coal, (this is why there are steel mills in Allentown and Pittsburg, The mills are there because they had rivers for transport and the required Metalurgical coal was mined nearby)
It used to be that Anthropologists regarded Oceans as barriers, while ancient people saw them as efficient highways! And the Atlantic is easy to cross if you understand wind and current patterns better than Christopher Columbus did...
You might also find that Okinawan people, traveling like or with Polynesian seafarers "colonized" the western shores of south America Circa 10,000 years ago... this one might appear in a web search!
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