Honestly, I don’t know - but meteoritic iron tends to be fairly ductile, so I’d imagine hard rocks used to bash at it to gradually pinch a piece off. Actually,

Honestly, I don’t know - but meteoritic iron tends to be fairly ductile, so I’d imagine hard rocks used to bash at it to gradually pinch a piece off. Actually, here’s a source - that does indeed seem to be the case. https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/advanced/aa_2_4.html https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/advanced/aa...