2,800-Year-Old Arrowhead Was Made of Meteoritic Iron, Archaeologists Say | Sci.News
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The detection of the cosmogenic isotope aluminum-26; the concentrations of nickel, cobalt, germanium and gallium; and the presence of two minerals called kamacite and taenite unambiguously demonstrate the meteoritic nature of the ancient arrowhead from the Bronze Age settlement of Mörigen, Switzerland.
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Original Title: 2,800-Year-Old Arrowhead from the late Bronze Age settlement of Mörigen, Switzerland Was Made of Meteoritic Iron. The cosmogenic isotope aluminum-26; the concentrations of nickel, cobalt, germanium & gallium; & two minerals called kamacite & taenite was detected in the arrowhead.