Question

What were the advantages of using copper by early men?


GIVE REASON :-

The early men were always in danger of being attacked by wild animals ?

Answer 1

The biggest advantage was availability! Long before people learned to extract copper from its ore, they could find it in native form in some rich deposits. Here’s a piece from Michigan. It’s been polished a bit, but basically it came out of the ground like that. Early men could hammer it out, or possibly they knew how to melt it, though finding a container to melt it in would have been difficult.

Answer 2

Answer:

1)Copper used in buildings, usually for roofing, oxidizes to form a green verdigris (or patina). Copper is sometimes used in decorative art, both in its elemental metal form and in compounds as pigments. Copper compounds are used as bacteriostatic agents, fungicides, and wood preservatives.Copper is essential to all living organisms as a trace dietary mineral because it is a key constituent of the respiratory enzyme complex cytochrome c oxidase. In molluscs and crustaceans, copper is a constituent of the blood pigment hemocyanin, replaced by the iron-complexed hemoglobin in fish and other vertebrates. In humans, copper is found mainly in the liver, muscle, and bone.[6] The adult body contains between 1.4 and 2.1 mg of copper per kilogram of body weight.

Explanation:

2)The early men were always in danger of being attacked by wild animals because as they were not have any idea, They didnt have any safety tools with them.