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Comparison of Iron Meteoritic Material From Ohio and Illinois Hopewellian Burial Mounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jerome Kimberlin  and
John T. Wasson
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Abstract

An iron-nickel bead from Mound 9 at Havana, Illinois is distinctly different from samples from the Hopewell and Turner Mounds in Ohio. Whereas the source of the Ohio material appears to have been the Brenham, Kansas meteorite, there is no known North American meteorite having a composition closely similar to that of the Havana bead.

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American Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 489 - 491
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1976

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