My point is just that picking up iron rocks and abrading them into simple tools, doesn't constitute an "Iron Age".
The Tut dagger is very interesting. It doesn't seem to show the typical Widmanstätten pattern of meteorites. Without it there really isn't any visual way to know for sure it's from meteoritic material.
If it is from meteoritic material, then it must have been either cast or repeatedly folded and forge welded to refine it. This would represent more advanced technology from earlier on and I think there are a few other rare ancient and mysterious examples. However, it was not widespread and very uncommon. At any rate, there seems to have been some knowledge of iron and how to work it prior to the "Iron Age".
Last edited by Tai Google; 09-29-2020 at 10:27 AM.
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