Campo del Cielo Meteorite - SOLD 31.00g book The specimen is enclosed in

The specimen is enclosed in an acrylic specimen jar held within a handsome

" ~ Chief Brody

There are numerous large craters here and radiocarbon dating of charred tree stumps place the date of the impact at roughly 2500 BCE

due to the delicate nature of the material

and animal hide

Campo del Cielo Meteorite - SOLD 31.00g book The specimen is enclosed in"Moon defends himself with a spear tipped with a head carved of the soft wood of the bottletree, which breaks apart at the first impact. He also has a club made of the same wood which is too light to cause any harm. The Jaguar tears at his body, pieces of which fall on the earth. These are the meteors, which three times have caused a world fire." ~ Oral myth of Toba cosmology as recorded by Alfred Mtraux, 1946. Thousands of years ago, a massive metal