[HN Gopher] Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of ...
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Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern
Fennoscandia (2021)
Author : rntn
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-07-23 16:17 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
| Curious as to how much meteroic iron could be salvaged and then
| worked by these pre modern societies. I think the Egyptians had a
| few iron artifacts that were conclusively from meteorite iron.
| Gravityloss wrote:
| While not Fennoscandia, there is the 3000 year old Kaali crater
| in Estonia, ie during the stone age, a thousand of year earlier
| than what this article is about. There would have been iron
| available from it, and there were settlements afterwards around
| the crater.
| wil421 wrote:
| King Tut had a dagger made from a meteorite. I think it was
| pretty rare.
| Turing_Machine wrote:
| The Greenland Inuit used iron from the Cape York meteorite to
| make spear heads.
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| Some believe that the chunk of iron that Achilles offered as
| a prize in the Iliad was of meteoric origin.
| psacawa wrote:
| For those who'd like to see similar techniques in action, a
| popular Youtuber recently made an iron arrowhead using iron
| age(?) metallurgical techniques [0].
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| He gathers water containing iron-oxidizing bacteria, he extracts
| the ore using a sieve, he then smelts the ore with a handmade
| blast furnace and charcoal he made himself. He then separates
| prills from the slag and forges them into a knife with a clay
| mold and said blast furnace. After all that, he has the worlds
| worst and knife.
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| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhW4XFGQB4o
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