Ancient Meteors and Early Iron: How Space Rocks Became Everyday Tools in Iron Age Poland

Celestial Metal in Common Graves

More than 3,000 years ago, a rare form of iron fell from the sky and was turned into jewelry and tools by Iron Age craftspeople in what is now Poland. Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteo…