Re: Otzi the Iceman & his axe

From: R.Schenck (nygdan_morteauxspam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: 29 Jun 2004 13:28:16 -0700

Yuri Kuchinsky <yuku@trends.ca> wrote in message news:<40E073EC.A297DFEC@trends.ca>...
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> Way to go, Otzi! Your axe is quite something...
>
> I wonder if it was cast?

Haven't reproductions of it been made via casting? I thought that
casting was the method that was uncontroversially accepted?
>
> All the best,
>
> Yuri.
>
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>
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