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Meteorite Collecting among Ancient Americans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

H. H. Nininger*
Affiliation:
American Meteorite Laboratory, and Curator of Meteorites, Colorado Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colorado

Extract

During the past two years the field activities of the Nininger Laboratory (now the American Meteorite Laboratory, Inc.) have brought to light four new meteorites on old Indian camp sites in eastern Colorado (Plate 5) and western Kansas. The mere fact of these several associations strongly suggests that the aborigines recognized a special significance in these fallen stones. However, it must be admitted that, without additional evidence, these associations could be regarded as accidental.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1938

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