copper - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This material names an Archaic culture of the Great Lakes that developed cold-working techniques for it, as well as an Inuit group whose historic homeland is Coronation Gulf and Victoria Island in Nunavut. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this material that was worked into plates featuring motifs like the “birdman” in workshops like the one found at Mound 34 in Cahokia.

ANSWER: copper

[10h] The Rogan plates excavated from this archaeological site in Georgia feature falcon dancers wearing medicine bundles as headdresses. Those Braden-style plates found at this site are thought to have been made in Cahokia.

ANSWER: Etowah Indian Mounds

[10e] The mounds at both Cahokia and Etowah were built by this culture, named for a large North American river.

ANSWER: Mississippian Culture

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Berkeley D	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
UBC B	McGill A	10	0	10	20
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	10	0	0	10
Central Florida A	Florida C	0	0	10	10
William and Mary	Duke	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	NC State B	0	0	10	10
NC State A	North Carolina C	10	0	10	20
VCU	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Virginia	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Chicago D	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Chicago E	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern D	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern C	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin B	Brown	0	0	0	0
Yale	Harvard B	0	0	10	10
Carleton College	Washington B	0	0	10	10
Claremont	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Minnesota A	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	Washington A	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Bruin	WashU B	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Louisville B	10	0	10	20
Mississipi State	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Vanderbilt B	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Murray State A	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Bristol	LSE	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	Imperial C	0	0	0	0
UCL	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
John Jay	Catholic	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Georgetown	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Vassar	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Swarthmore	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
City St. George's	Durham	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	MIT	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth B	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20
Cornell C	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
Penn State	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
RIT	Cornell B	0	0	10	10