Dear List, While at Yamaguchi Univ. last year I assisted a graduate student in analyzing early iron tools found in a grave in Japan. Because the metal was not molten and was hammer hot worked; we found kamacite and tanite; but only in the black zone weathered crust in the highly weathered iron. I supplied over thirty tools found in archaeological sites from SE Asia (Thailand) and ALL of them showed no Ni. There are two Chinese Shang Dynasty examples of meteoritic iron in knives found in tombs; one is now at the Smithsonian in the US and the other at the ROM in Canada. Best, Dirk
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