Hi Doug, list members , -
"'On the top of a mesa a few miles east of Camp Verde, George E. Dawson
came upon a stone cyst in the corner of an ancient Indian dwelling.
Instead of finding a child burial as he expected, he found a 61.5 kg
metallic meteorite wrapped in a feather-cloth."
As far as I know it was nearly the same with the Winona meteorite. I was
always moved by the fact that American Indian tribes such as the Sinagua
(which were related to the Anasazi I guess) buried a meteorite in a way they
did with children. Perhaps they considered the falling of a meteorite to be
an act of birth? Obviously they were sure that this stone - and Winona
really doesn't look spectacular - was something special. Couldn't that point
to the fact that they observed the meteorite falling? Any ideas about that?
Best regards,
Matthias Baermann
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One more important reference, V. Buchwald, 1975, V. 2, p. 399,
'On the top of a mesa a few miles east of Camp Verde, George E. Dawson
came upon a stone cyst in the corner of an ancient Indian dwelling.
Instead of finding a child burial as he expected, he found a 61.5 kg
metallic meteorite wrapped in a feather-cloth. ref-Nininger and Nininger
1950 p. 106. Considerable pottery was found associated with the burial by
which its age was determined as about 800 years. ref-Nininger 1952. The
meteorite was found about 1915, about 33 km South of Sedona and 85 km
Southwest of Meteor Crater, in Yavapai County. The ancient Indian cliff
dwellings, Montezuma Castle, are about 7 km North of the find. While the
find was briefly reported by A.D. Nininger ref-1940. and photographed by
Nininger and Nininger ref-1952., it was only analyzed lately by Moore et.
al. ref-1968. and Wasson ref-1968. Wasson concluded on the basis of
Ga-Ge-Ir contents, which were similar withing analytical error to Canyon
Diablo, that Camp Verde was a mass transported from the strewn field of
Meteor Crater."
Cheers
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day: Phil Morgan's Flyer
Hi Bernd and Listees, "A meteorite that was excavated in an ancient
Arizona ruin. It was found wrapped in a feather cloth and [enclosed in] a
stone cyst."
brackets [] are mine to question whethe
r it was really 'on' or 'in'.
refs-
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~afs/may96_2.html
The Camp Verde, Arizona iron meteorite was found on an 800-year-old
Sinagua "altar," wrapped in a feather blanket and was probably transported
from Meteor Crater approximately 100 km to the northeast.
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite
In 1915, a 135-pound iron meteorite was found in a Sinagua (c.1100-1200
AD) burial cyst near Camp Verde, Arizona, respectfully wrapped in a
feather cloth. referenced to Nininger's 1972 Catch [sic] a Falling Star'.
Best wishes Doug
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Mr and Mrs H.H. Nininger once wrote: "You will see these strange
meteorites
Anyone care to give answers to these 22 pieces of information??? Maybe one
answer per list member. Happy sleuthing!
Let me start with #1: "A meteorite that fell through a house roof in
Missouri during WWI"
Well, that's "Baxter" ... like list member Jim Baxter ;-) Hi Jim, how are
you doin'?
Baxter is an L6 chondrite of 611 grams that fell through the roof of a
house in Stone (!) County, Missouri, on Jan 18, 1616.
Cheers,
Bernd
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