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Found in Europe is the arrowhead, made by the meteor, 3000 years ago

2023-08-08 20:52:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Found in Europe is the arrowhead, made by the meteor, 3000 years ago

A new study has revealed that a Bronze Age arrowhead found in Switzerland was made from a meteorite.

Dating to between 900 and 800 BC, the 39-millimeter arrowhead was found at a pile dwelling site at Morigen on Lake Biel, Switzerland, during excavations in the 19th century, according to the study by a a team of researchers at the Natural History Museum of Bern, writes CNN .

The nearly 3,000-year-old artifact was created with iron from a meteorite that landed in Estonia, the study noted. This indicates that meteoritic iron was traded in Europe by 800 BC or earlier, the researchers said, adding how unusual it is to find meteoritic iron used so early in history.

"Such evidence of an early use of meteoritic iron is extremely rare," according to a news release on the discovery.

At the time, people had not yet begun to smelt iron from oxide minerals, but some metallic iron could be found in meteorite impact fields, according to the study.

Objects made using meteoric iron have been found in Turkey, Greece, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Russia and China, such objects have previously only been discovered in two places in Central and Western Europe, both in Poland. /CNA





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