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A comment on Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia (2021). Parent comment

Re:Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of North... by wil421 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @01:30PM (#32205489)
King Tut had a dagger made from a meteorite. I think it was pretty rare.
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Re:Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of North... by Turing_Machine on Saturday July 23, 2022 @01:59PM (#32205781)
The 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.

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