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Re: Native Americans and Meteorites - Part 2 of 6
Bernd Pauli HD wrote:
> Jeanne wrote:
>
> > I was also wondering if your book mentions anything about Native
> > American usage of Canyon Diablo irons for tools, amulets or other
> > spiritual items.
>
> BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris - Meteorites in History, pp. 223-225:
>
> The Hopewell Indian culture flourished from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 500.
> The Hopewells settled in villages and did primitive farming, and they
> expended substantial labor in constructing large burial mounds and
> related earthworks. Within several of these mounds in southern Ohio and
> central Illinois, archaeologists have found ornaments either made from
> or overlaid with meteoritic iron. A separate fragment weighing 767
> grams, which was found in Mound No. 4 of the Turner group in the Little
> Miami Valley, Ohio, was a pallasite, and scientists have since
> identified it as a transported piece of the Brenham pallasite. The site
> of this find is a thousand miles distant in Kiowa County, Kansas, which
> adds to the previous evidence that the Hopewell Indians carried on trade
> over long distances. In addition, twenty-two beads that were found in
> Mound No. 9 of the Havana, Illinois, group were fashioned from a fine
> octahedrite, and the location of the main mass from which this material
> was obtained is not known. The presence of meteoritic iron objects in
> these burial mounds indicates that they were probably treasured
> possessions, but evidence that the objects were venerated is lacking.
> The occurrence along with them of artifacts made of copper and of
> shells, which were much more common material, supports the idea that
> they were personal belongings.
>
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