Meteoric iron was used by Bronze Age cultures and may have eventually sparked the idea of smelting terrestrial iron.
Now an unassuming arrowhead found in Morigen, Switzerland in the 19th century turns out to be made from a meteorite...
...one which fell 1,500 miles away. It's 3,000 years old or so and it appears that the value of the metal was recognized such that arrowheads made from it (or the metal itself, but more likely the arrowheads) were being traded long distances.
Iron is superior to bronze, these arrowheads would have lasted longer and it's not surprising. Without metallic meteorites...
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