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Hekate

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3. Here it is from the site; I wasn't too far wrong

Reply to DFW (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 06:02 AM

Jan 2015

Appelt and his team found huge basalt stones that the prehistoric people would have used to break off massive chunks of stone at the sites of the meteor discoveries.

"They did a heck of a lot of hammering," said archeologist Jens Fog Jensen. "The blacksmiths would start by knocking off a small piece, thoroughly beating it flat and giving it a sharp edge, then hardening it further so that it could serve as an arrowhead or flensing knife."

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Meteorite used by Prehistoric Eskimos before Introduction to Iron, Tools and Weapons made from Space [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2015 OP

A question does arise DFW Jan 2015 #1

You could probably use a stone hammer and stone wedge inserted in cracks to some effect Hekate Jan 2015 #2

Here it is from the site; I wasn't too far wrong Hekate Jan 2015 #3

Basalt could do the trick DFW Jan 2015 #4

It took time, but what else was there to do? Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2015 #12

Paleo-Eskimos were cool. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #5

So, not 'before the Iron Age' - it was iron tools they made from the meteorite muriel_volestrangler Jan 2015 #6

What was cool was the iron was worked cold Brother Buzz Jan 2015 #7

Thank god the meteorite didn't have The Blob in it nikto Jan 2015 #8

rocks and canoes Ned Flanders Jan 2015 #9

John Bidwell died years before Lake Almanor was built. Brother Buzz Jan 2015 #13

That's a Big Rock! It most have created a huge CRATER, upon hitting Earth! Johnny Rash Jan 2015 #10

We couldn't eat it, or fuck it... Orsino Jan 2015 #11