A Bronze Age arrowhead found in Switzerland was made using meteoric iron.
In the late 1800s, archaeologists discovered an arrowhead at a Bronze Age dwelling in Mörigen, Switzerland. In the years since, the 3,000-year-old artifact has been part of the collection at the Bern Historical Museum.
"On the outside it looks like a typical arrowhead coated in rust," lead author Beda Hofmann, head and curator of mineralogy and meteorites at the Natural History Museum of Bern, told Live Science. Their analysis showed that"there is still a lot of metal preserved," he said. At first, scientists thought the artifact was linked to the 170,000-year-old Twannberg meteorite site, less than 5 miles from the dwelling. However, further study revealed that the concentrations of nickel and germanium in the arrowhead weren't a match, according to the statement.
Undiscouraged, Hofmann and colleagues referenced a geological database that revealed that the Kaalijarv meteorite site in Estonia, located more than 1,400 miles away, contained similar metals to the artifact and that the arrowhead came from a 2-ton meteorite, according to the statement.related stories—3-headed arrowhead 'last touched by Vikings' revealed by melting ice patch
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