Not too off topic, it’s always been remarkable to me that N. American native people were STILL ‘stone age’ when Europeans arrived.
In Indians’ early interaction with Europeans, they had a dread fear of blades. It’s something that was clean unknown to them, since they did not work metal at all. They called Europeans the ‘long knife’.
Tribes were very primitive and warred constantly with one another. It took Europeans a long time to understand their cultures and tribal interactions... which ones got along and which ones didn’t, etc.
Disagree, but it seemed primarily for ornaments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_Mesoamerica
What I think is more bewildering is no exploration of the wheel beyond that of toys.