[meteorite-list] New Meteorite used as Neolithic Tool

From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:44:41 -0500
Message-ID: <9805AFC1836E49EDA3FD7B79C505056A_at_ET>

It looks a lot more like a cupstone or a discoidal than a hammerstone.
Doesn't look anything like an anvil. An anvil would have a flat surface. A
hammerstone generally wouldn't have a depression in its middle. We have a
Campo in the museum that was used as an anvil, I have a picture of it
somewhere....


Cupule:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/NutterPen759.pdf/page1-240px-NutterPen759.pdf.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupstone&usg=__4CsS3wfr9tZ1FJumz8AO0nbnuSg=&h=196&w=240&sz=8&hl=en&start=11&sig2=QJZqojW36XnfMRWDw4as_g&zoom=0&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=oUb8AvV5zA9lMM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcupstone%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=XLMkTbDzMMP78AbBz6XRDQ

Discoidal:
http://www.relicshack.com/Details.aspx?Id=14943

Phil Whitmer
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Hi List,

A new meteorite (Bouanane) was added to the Met Bulletin yesterday and
in the description it says the meteorite was used as a hammer/anvil
tool in the Neolithic period.

This meteorite came out of Morocco courtesy of Philippe Thomas. Does
anyone have a photo of this specimen? I'm very curious to see what it
looks like.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=52888

Best regards,

MikeG
Received on Wed 05 Jan 2011 01:44:41 PM PST