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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:19:19 +0100
From: PAOLO CONTE <progetto.androm...@gmail.com>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Prehistoric Gibeon artifacts
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Hello Listers,
I often read, about Gibeon, this meteorites was used by native tribes to
make weapons, tools and jewelry, over the last 50,000 years.
However, I have not been able to find *any photos* of these prehistoric
Gibeon artifacts in Internet, or *even any research papers* mentioning
these tools.
It's very strange, but you can directly verify this fact on Google: no
images, no scientific paper.
So, my question: do these artifacts really exist? Where are they? Are there
pictures of them? Does anyone know anything about it?
I wrote several times to the museums of Windhoek, Namibia, but they never
answered: really funny!
I hope to receive some useful information from you.
Many thanks for your kind attention.
Best regards from Rome.
Paolo Conte (IMCA #6037),
Rome, Italy
Paolo,
I'm not sure that the ancient nomadic San people who inhabited the
desert area where Gibeon fell had anything to do with metal as they
really didn't need it in their culture. The Bantu peoples who came much
later to the fringes of the desert did have a metal knowledge and made
metal artifacts but where they got the metal may have been from sources
other than Gibeon. A Gibeon anvil may have been used by Bantus
relatively recently. Try searching on San (Bushman) metal artifacts but
I think you will have a long search.
Chauncey
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