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[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

some groups had access to copper and bronze, but none had iron

There were a group on the Washington coast that work with iron that washed up from old japanense shipwrecks before any contact of Europeans.

[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

There are also a few Inuit groups who made knives for centuries from a metallic meteorite that landed in the arctic circle.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

Isn't Washington coast on the east side of the continent?

[-] Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Washington state. The one above California.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

Washington state is on the West Coast. Washington DC, the capital city, is on the East Coast.

It's... not intuitive.

[-] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

When I was a kid, Washington the state, Washington DC, and the whitehouse all blurred together, and then we learned that the whitehouse burned and was rebuilt, and for the longest time I thought it was relocated... to the state... of Washington... and I believed that for years. I think I figured it out before high school, but it was definitely 7th or 8th grade before I could point on a map where the president sat.

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 3 points 4 days ago

We have Washington state on the west, and DC on the east.

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