h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

... Did 'They' know which bit was meteorite and which bit was chrysoprase or even just quartz. They'd be precious too...

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Now a days they would be flogged off on ebay

They would, Peanut.

I don't know, Rod, what they knew. I do know they saw the rocks fall from the sky, and made associations. I forget where in the Southwest it was, but they found an ancient gravesite where the tribal people had buried a piece of meteorite in a feather cloth to show it respect.

Ah, Peanut - yep, I can just see it:
"Matched set of meteorites, five graded sizes of (approx) 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 Kg"

Dmitri, I can imagine that, too - a god fallen to earth... a wonder-full place we live in, eh?

this is off topic I know but what I find truely shocking is the amount of archaeology and fossils you can buy privately and it all seems terribly unregulated

Rod bet you couldn't get that matched set wih free super saving posting and packageing!

I bet you could get free S&H with bulk purchase.

Seriously, though, this Graphic Guide Entry aims at doing what a Guide Entry might do, only visually - tracing the history of human understsanding of meteorites.

I very much like them Dmitri

Thanks, Peanut.

I'm hoping maybe we'll get some other Researchers interested in doing similar graphic entries.

A noble aspiration, DG.
I, too, am enjoying the series.

but I hope you're not looking in my direction as my paper & pencil need a straightedge to rule over 'em.

Rod, I couldn't draw a straight line with a ruler.

These comics are untouched by human hands. It's all digital work.