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"these coveted, precocious artifacts" should be "these coveted, precious artifacts" There was a lot of disbelief in this article about our ancestors using
by davidhakendel 9y ago
"these coveted, precocious artifacts"
should be
"these coveted, precious artifacts"
There was a lot of disbelief in this article about our ancestors using metal from meteorites. Iron from meteorites has been used for at 6,000 years.
Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys.
It began far back in prehistory. The earliest surviving iron
artifacts, from the 4th millennium BC in Egypt, were made
from meteoritic iron-nickel.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous_metallurgy
- JacobAldridge 9y ago"Precocious" means roughly "premature", or "appearing before its time". So the word is used correctly here to talk about Iron artifacts appearing before they 'should' in the Iron Age.
- bookofjoe 9y agoYou are indeed a close, careful reader. Kudos!
- davidhakendel 9y agoAh. I see how that was used. It was another nod to the disbelief of people's knowledge prior to the iron age. Thank you.