5,000 years old Egyptian iron beads made from hammered meteoritic iron

Thilo Rehren (1) , T. Belgya (2) , Albert Jambon (3) , Kali G. , Z. Kasztovszky (4) , Zsuzsa Kis (2) , Istvan Kovacs (2) , B. Maróti (2) , Marcos Martinon-Torres (1, 2) , G. Miniaci , Vincent C. Pigott (5) , M. Radivojević , L. Rosta , L. Szentmiklosi (2) , Z. Szőkefalvi-Nagy (2)

1 UCL - Institute of archaeology
2 Department of Data Management, Eo¨tvo¨s Lora'nd Geophysical Institute of Hungary
3 iSTeP - Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris
4 MTAE - Centre for Energy Research [Budapest]
5 UCL - Institute of Archaeology

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences; Mineralogy

Thilo Rehren, T. Belgya, Albert Jambon, Kali G., Z. Kasztovszky, et al.. 5,000 years old Egyptian iron beads made from hammered meteoritic iron. Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013, 12, pp.4785-4792. ⟨10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.002⟩. ⟨hal-00942894⟩