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==Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs"==
John L. Sorenson:<ref>{{Aas|pages=284}}</ref>
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Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs. <ref>H.H. Bancroft, ''The Native Races (of the Pacific States)'', vol. 2 (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1882), pp. 407-8.</ref> A number of artifacts have been preserved that are unquestionably of iron; their considerable sophistication, in some cases, at least suggests interest in this metal <ref>Rene Rebetez, ''Objetos Prehispanicos de Hierro Y Piedra'' (Mexico: Libreria Anticuaria, n.d.).</ref>....Few of these specimens have been chemically analyzed to determine whether the iron used was from meteors or from smelted ore. The possibility that smelted iron either has been or may yet be found is enhanced by a find at Teotihuacan. A pottery vessel dating to about A.D. 300, and apparently used for smelting, contained a "metallic-looking" mass. Analyzed chemically, it proved to contain copper and iron. <ref>Sigvald Linne, ''Mexican Highland Cultures, Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Publication 7'', n.s. (Stockholm, 1942), p. 132.</ref>
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