
"Bronze Age arrowhead made of meteoritic iron" Topic
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Tango01  | 11 Dec 2024 4:12 p.m. PST |
"The arrowhead dates to the late Bronze Age (900-800 B.C.) and is believed to have been one of a series of arrowheads unearthed at the site in 1873-4. The rest were all bronze. It has a triangular blade with a short tang. It weighs 2.9 grams and is an inch and a half long. It is now in the collection of the Bern History Museum. Humans crafted objects out of iron long before they were able to smelt it from ore. It was foraged, basically, collected from broken fragments of meteorites fallen to the ground. The oldest known artifacts made of meteoritic iron are beads found in Gerzeh, Lower Egypt, from the predynastic period (5000-3400 B.C.). King Tutankhamun had a gold-handled dagger with a meteoric iron blade in the linen bandages that wrapped his body. No more than 54 Pre-Iron Age meteoritic iron artifacts are known on the archaeological record of Eurasia and northern Africa…"
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John the OFM  | 11 Dec 2024 6:34 p.m. PST |
Ah, the ancestral sword of House Dayne! Dawn! |
SBminisguy | 12 Dec 2024 9:21 a.m. PST |
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rvandusen  | 12 Dec 2024 11:50 a.m. PST |
Along with meteoric iron, Egyptians also collected meteoric glass from the Libyan desert. link |
Tango01  | 12 Dec 2024 1:37 p.m. PST |
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