Archaeologists Say 2,800-Year-Old Arrowhead Is Made of Meteorite Iron | Science News
Detection of the cosmogenic isotope aluminum-26; nickel, cobalt, germanium and gallium concentrations; and the presence of two minerals called kamacite and taenite clearly indicate the meteorite nature of the ancient arrowhead from the Bronze Age settlement in Mörigen, Switzerland. Morigen arrowhead. Image credit: Thomas Schüpbach. A researcher at the Natural History Museum of Bern and … Read more