In 1945, an excavation of a Native American mound in Illinois revealed around a thousand shell and pearl beads, and 22 beads iron beads. Where did those come from? The people that lived there 2,000 years ago, as the artifacts were dated, did not have a culture of metallurgy.
They came from a meteorite, one the rare meteors that contain iron. Only three such meteorites have ever been found in North America.A piece of one of those three meteorites, the Anoka meteorite, was first discovered in 1961, next to…
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