Hopefully this question isn't too broad. To try being more specific, I've always been puzzled about why it is that metallurgy in precontact Americas did not develop to a similar degree or ubiquity as it did in Eurasian bronze and later iron age civilizations. As I understand it, though bronze and copper tools were produced in many societies in the Americas, they are believed to have been more of a status device based on the level of ornamentation and the burials they have been found in.

I understand not every civilization or peoples develop technology at similar rates, but I struggle to understand why it is that other civilizations independently developed a metallurgic revolution that led to the abandonment of stone tools in their entirety and eventually progressed to using iron while those in the Americas never entered such a period that even copper tools replaced their most common implements.