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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2215941" data-attributes="member: 7240">I had no idea arrowheads, knivres and trowels in a small community on the Olympic peninsula would fall into such a category.Please try to read what I am saying more carefully. It was a native village and not a Chinese village. The native village, despite being pre-Columbian had a small number of metal tools forged using processes that had not yet been discovered in Mesoamerica at the time of contact. I recall them being iron but I'm several thousand miles away from my notes right now. I have no idea why you have not heard of it if you really do know this field, given that I was taught about the village in a university history course by a highly respected academic in the field. I am on holiday now but would be happy to forward the journal citations to you when I return home. Although a European origin for the tools has not been ruled out, it has been assumed by scholars given the dating and location of the village that the tools are of Chinese origin. Again, there may be other evidence besides date and location that may point to this but I'm not aware of it.As for the Sung dynasty Chinese coin as a Gitksan heirloom, the book in which this is discussed is by Terry Glavin. I'm not sure which of his books it appears in but my best guess, again away from my notes, is that the book was Death Feast At Temlehamud.</blockquote>