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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] There is a large deposit of magnetite on a volcanic island near Borneo. I think this island was part of the ancient route to southern Japan of the Jomon/Ama/Ami/Yami pygmies, and that this magnetic mineral was collected and used, and at some point was used to make a foil wrapped around spatulas (to pry abelone) & spears used by women divers, and later eventually (after association with Ainu/Aynu) compasses and then structural steel swords. "Magnetite is NOT a normal occuring iron oxide, it forms in vulcanos in contact with water vapour and in the air above 1200°C from rust... " Frank Doernenburg @ HOM - - - L. Cooper @ HOM: "Meteoritic iron is known in Egypt from pre-dynastic graves, and seems to have been considered precious, although not unheard of. A. M. Roth (JEA 79, p. 69ff [hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu]) proposed that smaller pieces from such iron sources were used in the Opening of the Mouth ceremony during the Old Kingdom - forming the blades in the adze from this ritual - directly similar, she says, to the "iron-bladed chisels found in the tomb of Tutankhamun (that) resemble closely chisels shown in representations of 'opening of the mouth' tools". " [/QB][/QUOTE]
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