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Curious as to how much meteroic iron could be salvaged and then worked by these pre modern societies. I think the Egyptians had a few iron artifacts that were c
by Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
Curious as to how much meteroic iron could be salvaged and then worked by these pre modern societies. I think the Egyptians had a few iron artifacts that were conclusively from meteorite iron.
- wil421 4y agoKing Tut had a dagger made from a meteorite. I think it was pretty rare.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoThe Greenland Inuit used iron from the Cape York meteorite to make spear heads. Some believe that the chunk of iron that Achilles offered as a prize in the Iliad was of meteoric origin.
- Gravityloss 4y agoWhile not Fennoscandia, there is the 3000 year old Kaali crater in Estonia, ie during the stone age, a thousand of year earlier than what this article is about. There would have been iron available from it, and there were settlements afterwards around the crater.