Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 08/03/2023 12:39:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An arrowhead likely comprised of material from a meteorite was discovered in Switzerland by a team of archaeologists and geologists, according to a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The team determined that the arrowhead was made of an iron-nickel-aluminium alloy using electron-microscope images, X-rays, and high-energy radiation analysis. The results were then compared with other known meteorite samples.
A bracelet and an ax head from Poland are the only two known archaeological artifacts in central and western Europe made from meteorite material.
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The Twannberg iron meteorite is the largest found one known to have reached Switzerland. It split into three fragments that may have been discovered in prehistoric times and used by those at Mörigen to construct the arrowhead.
Chemical evidence suggests that the Twannberg meteorite was not used to make this particular arrowhead, however.
Having ruled out the Twannberg meteorite, the team widened their search, observing that the nickel and germanium concentrations in the Mörigen arrowhead share similarities with the Estonian Kaalijarv meteorite, which fell roughly 3,500 years ago during the Bronze Age and produced a number of small fragments. Even though Estonia is near the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe, researchers believe the arrowhead is more likely connected to this meteorite based on similar properties.
Though the team is searching for more artifacts of the same origin to further their study, this meteorite arrowhead could point to a larger network linking Switzerland and Estonia for the trade of such commodities as amber, silex stones, and iron meteorites.
I have a puddle in the back yard that was part of an ice comet.
In German, amber is "Bernstein."
Proto-Indo-European: *péh₂wr̥. (fire) and *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”)-- "fire stone."
And just how did they come to this conclusion ? Did they check some records that NORAD had on an old wooden computer drive ? If so then what did they use to read the data from the wooden computer drive made from a slab of tree trunk ? A freaking Megladon tooth connected to a Pterodactyl eyeball monitor with the tendons of a primate ankle ?
What utter BullS}{!T...
I’m mystified by the article title. Who wrote it? Why did they write it?
Thanks Red Badger.
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My theory is that in the time of Abraham a meteor came over the north pole and hit the top of the Alps and rained fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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