That's interesting, thanks. Your post motivated me to google... Wikipedia has a list of uses of meteoric iron dating to 2.5k BC and earlier: https://en.m.wiki

That's interesting, thanks. Your post motivated me to google... Wikipedia has a list of uses of meteoric iron dating to 2.5k BC and earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron The earliest dagger listed there seems to come from the Hattian people of Anatolia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattians https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattians It sounds like they were a pre-Indo-European group later absorbed/conquered by the Hittites...