Meteorite used by Prehistoric Eskimos before Introduction to Iron, Tools and Weapons made from Space

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. So, not 'before the Iron Age' - it was iron tools they made from the meteorite

and they did it after 'the Iron Age' had started elsewhere - "for hundreds of years".

There's actually more in the Daily Mail article than this one that nicked the story from it.

It is through early Eskimos, also known as the Dorset people, began exploiting the iron in the meteorites in the mid eighth century. When the Thules, an early Inuit people, arrived in the 12th century, they took over the trade in meteorite iron.

Weapons made from the meteorites have been found as far away as Canada.
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Dr Appelt added: 'It has been traded over large distances and testifies to the significance of the meteorites from the Thule as a source of iron in the Eastern Arctic.'
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It is thought that the Thule's take over of the trade in meteorite iron is thought to have been partly responsible for the demise of the Dorset culture.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2909898/Before-iron-Greenland-METEORITE-Age-Prehistoric-Eskimos-mined-giant-space-rocks-make-tools-weapons.html