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Possible Sources of Meteoritic Material from Hopewell Indian Burial Mounds

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Reinvestigation of the Hopewell burial mounds has indicated the remarkable trading area of the Hopwellian people.

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WASSON, J., SEDWICK, S. Possible Sources of Meteoritic Material from Hopewell Indian Burial Mounds. Nature 222, 22–24 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222022a0

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