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The 1 - 5 micron diffuse sky emission from which local foreground emissionfrom the solar system and the Galaxy have been subtracted exceeds thebrightness that can be attributed to normal star forming galaxies. The natureof this excess near-infrared background light (NIRBL) is still controversial.On one hand, it has been interpreted as a distinct spectral feature created bythe redshifted emission from primordial (Population III) stars that have formedat redshifts > 8. On the other hand, the NIRBL spectrum is almost identical tothat of the zodiacal cloud, raising the possibility that it is of local origin.Blazars can, in principle, offer a simple test for the nature and origin of theNIRBL. Very high energy gamma-ray photons emitted by these objects areattenuated on route to earth by photon-photon interactions with theextragalactic background light (EBL). This paper examines whether theextragalactic nature of the NIRBL can be determined from the analysis of theTeV spectra of blazars. (Abridged)Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ on July 15,  200

Is There an Imprint of Primordial Stars in the TeV γ‐Ray Spectrum of Blazars?