Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space

Re:Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space by davidhakendel on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:40PM (#16006019)

  "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

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Re:Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space by JacobAldridge on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:47PM (#16006045)

"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.

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Re:Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space by davidhakendel on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:00PM (#16006099)

Ah. I see how that was used. It was another nod to the disbelief of people's knowledge prior to the iron age. Thank you.

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Re:Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space by bookofjoe on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:51PM (#16006059)

You are indeed a close, careful reader. Kudos!

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