Strange Metal From Beyond Our World Found in Ancient Treasure Stash

• Strange Metal From Beyond Our World Found in Ancient Treasure Stash : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-metal-from-beyond-our-world-found-in-ancient-treasure-stash

 

Interesting story - clickbait headline. Iron is not a Strange Metal - no matter where it was formed. Kudos to the ancient Iberians for figuring out how to work iron before it was common. They're the real geniuses here. They didn't have spectrometers etc.

Buen trabajo señores. - Good work, gentlemen.

 

But they didn't speak Spanish in Spain, back around 3,000 years ago - nobody would understand what I just wrote. They spoke Iberian, a non-Indo-European language that has some connections with Amazigh - a Berber language (North Africa) and possibly some with Basque. From here: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Iberian-language

There are a couple of surviving alphabets too, for Iberian. Greek and Phoenician influence, which is not surprising anywhere around the Mediterranean. One of those is also from North Africa (Tuareg).
All on view here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_Iberian_script

This is interesting - made my day.

 

The Iron Age is defined as the era between the Bronze Age Collapse and written history. Not a defensible end point of course but humans have been refining and working iron ore into iron and steel for thousands of years.

 

Not very many thousands. About 3 and a bit, in fact. Both steel and iron around 12th - 13th centuries BCE. Steel first in Turkey, as far as we know. The iron worked in in this article would seem to be consistent with the beginning of the Iron Age as we know it, although there are meteoric iron "outliers" e.g. The dagger of meteoric iron, found in King Tutankhamen's tomb, where he was laid to rest in 1325 BCE - about 100 years before the accepted start of the Iron Age.

An "outlier" but not by much. I'm guessing that may have been less than 100 years before the accepted start of the Iron Age. It appears iron production and working certainly weren't widespread at the time these "proto-Spaniards" made the objects under discussion.

But I'm sure it was long before the founding of "El Sindicato Español de Trabajadores del Hierro" -The Spanish Iron-Workers' Union.

 

Title sounds like an AD for a bad Heavy Metal Band... But maybe that's just me.

 

"Strange Metal from Beyond Our World" - not necessarily a "bad" band. Maybe just "Psychedelic Metal."
Like Oranssi Pazuzu, Black Math Horseman and Tarantula Hawk...et al.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Oranssi_Pazuzu/3540279710
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Black_Math_Horseman/3540291936
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Tarantula_Hawk/17669

 

This thread just keeps on making my day! We need less Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, quasi-accredited-fast-easy-cheap-doctorates and more interesting topics like Iberian Language, Early Iron-work and Psychedelic Metal Bands!

And 40-50 of the "good" topics should all be tied into a low-cost degree program - with Bullet-Proof Accreditation.

 

Yeah, Bullet-Proof. Because someone will always try to shoot us down.

 

No, that would be Sia. Nothing like Heavy Metal!!

 

You mean...um..."iron clad"?

 

Sia means a lot of things - from an Australian singer to "Secret Intelligence Australia" Which of these 40+ meanings?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sia_(disambiguation)
... or did you mean the American CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)?

 

OK.... Maybe you mean Sia's song: "Unstoppable?" That'd be "bulletproof," I guess. Is that it?

@Mac Juli Is this "International Cryptic Day" or something???

 

"Something".


And yes, I meant something from Sia; but as far as I know, the song title is "Titanium"!! - Which is, of course, another strange metal!

 

Right. Single, released in 2011, composed by David Guetta. Thanks. That was a good mystery! Enjoyable.

 

There is a song from Canadian Rock musician - Neil Merryweather called "Kryptonite".
An alien substance that has the property of depriving Superman of his powers

 

I think I had a kryptonite credit card once - - kept depriving me of my money.

 

And it's a LIGHT METAL. The opposite of HEAVY METAL. I think I am onto something here...

 

For sure. We'll include it in the "Bullet-Proof Degree Program." 3 Upper-level credits in Titanium.

 

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