The world of iron

Weitere Verfasser: Humphris, Jane , [HerausgeberIn]
Rehren, Thilo , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London : Archetype, 2013.
Umfang/Format: XIV, 482 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
ISBN: 9781904982975
1904982972
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Iron and its influence on the prehistoric site of Lejja / Pamela Eze-Uzomaka
  • A comparison of early and later Iron Age Societies in the Bassar region of Togo / Philip de Barros
  • Our iron smelting ¹⁴C dates from Central Africa : from a plain appointment to a full blown relationship / Bernard Clist
  • Yoruba iron metallurgy : raw materials, routine and rituals / O. Akin Ige
  • Mining and moving specular haematite in Botswana, ca. 200-1300 AD / Edwin N. Wilmsen, Alec C. Campbell, George A. Brook, Lawrence H. Robbins, and Michael Murphy
  • Late Iron Age technology of Mt. Kenya region : the case studies of the Kangai and Kanyua archaeological sites in Mbeere District / M'Mbogori Freda Nkirote
  • Pre-colonial iron production in Great Lakes Africa : recent research at UCL Institute of Archaeology / Jane Humphris and Louise Iles
  • Bricolage, ritual performance, and habitus (forgotten) in Barongo iron smelting / Peter R. Schmidt
  • ^ Refining narratives : transformations of iron-working traditions in Ghana - 19th to 21st centuries / Len Pole
  • Indian iron and steel, with special reference to southern India / Sharada Srinivasan
  • Recent archaeometallurgical discoveries of iron in southeast Rajasthan, India / Lalit Pandey
  • Smelting : a sacred process. Observations of iron smelting in Madhya Pradesh, India / Jake Keen
  • An ethno-archaeological survey of iron working in India / Vibha Tripathi
  • Iron Age-early historic period in eastern India. A study in material culture and technology : evidence from the site of Badmal-Asurgarh, District Sambalpur, Orissa, India / Pradeep K. Behera and Pranab K. Chattopadhyay
  • Invention, innovation and inspiration : optimisation and resolving technological change in the Sri Lankan archaeological record / Gillian Juleff
  • Iron working in an Indian Ocean context / Randi Haaland
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  • The world's earliest iron smelting? : its inception, evolution and impact in northern Nigeria / Patrick Darling
  • Casting iron in ancient China / Han Rubin and Chen Jianli
  • Questioning research on early iron in the Mediterranean / Martina Renzi, Salvador Rovira, M. Carme Rovira-Hortalà, and Ignacio Montero Ruiz
  • Iron, myth and magic : perceptions of smiths and metal workers through cultural evidence from Britain and beyond / Peter Halkon
  • Early iron in the Near East, a review of evidence / H. Alexander Veldhuijzen
  • The iron ore mine of Mugharet al-Wardeh, Jordan : excavations and new dating / Yosha Alamri and Andreas Hauptmann
  • Forging activities in Jaffa during Ottoman Palestine / Sylvain Bauvais
  • Characterisation of iron technology at medieval Talgar in Kazakhstan / Jang-Sik Park and Dmitriy Voyakin
  • New aspects of the 9th and 10th century Islamic period metallurgical workshop excavated at Merv, Turkmenistan : reassessing the slag compositions / John Merkel
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  • Variability in iron smelting practices : assessment of technical, cultural and economic criteria to explain the metallurgical diversity in the Dogon area (Mali) / Caroline Robion-Brunner, Vincent Serneels, and Sébastien Perret
  • Epistemic communities and epistemological translocations in early modern southern Africa, ca. CE 200-900 / Edwin N. Wilmsen
  • Superstition or ingeniousness : re-thinking symbolism in indigenous African iron technology / Bertram B.B. Mapunda
  • Applying ethnographic presents to archaeological pasts : preliminary thoughts on memories of iron production from western Uganda / Louise Iles
  • Evolutionary analysis of ironmaking slag / Michael F. Charlton, Stephen J. Shennan, Thilo Rehren, and Peter Crew
  • Nature's laws & culture's norms. A proposed systematic classification framework for the study of material culture and technology (SOMCAT) / Ann Feuerbach
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  • Symmetry in the archaeology of technology : nailing down manufacturing processes and networks of innovation in colonial ironworking / Krysta Ryzewski
  • Manufacturing techniques, technological traditions and social choices in ancient Greece / Maria Kostoglou
  • The acquisition and circulation of iron during Iron Age II in the northern region of the Paris Basin (France) / Sylvain Bauvais and Philippe Fluzin
  • The East Asia Session / Han Rubin
  • Preliminary studies on Western Han dynasty iron smelting sites and slag found in Pingnan County, Guangxi Province, China / Huang Quansheng and Li Yanxiang
  • Iron production in the Han period in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China. Preliminary report on recent fieldwork / Yasuyuki Murakami
  • The manufacture, techniques and dates of iron objects found recently at Chinese archaeological sites / Chen Jianli and Han Rubin
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  • Technology transfer across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea : a case study of the iron industry at Santubong, Sarawak / Brian Gilmour and Chris Doherty
  • Iron and steel making in ancient Korea inferred from the microstructure of iron artefacts / Jang-Sik Park
  • Protohistoric iron weapons and tools from a burial site in West Central Thailand / Anna Bennett
  • Geochemical survey and metalworking : a case study from Exmoor, southwest Britain / Chris Carey and Gillian Juleff
  • Three ores, three irons and three knives / Quanyu Wang and Peter Crew
  • Iron and processes in Scandinavian blacksmithing workshops from the Iron Age to the 14th century / Arne Jouttijärvi
  • Iron? Which iron? : methodologies for metallographic and slag inclusion studies applied to ferrous reinforcements from Auxerre Cathedral / Maxime L'Héritier, Philippe Dillmann, Sylvain Aumard, and Philippe Fluzin
  • Measuring variation in iron smelting slags : an empirical evaluation of group-identification procedures / Michael F. Charlton, Peter Crew, Thilo Rehren, and Stephen J. Shennan
  • Environment / Donald B. Wagner
  • Fuel for iron : wood exploitation for metallurgy on the Dogon Plateau, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn, Caroline Robion-Brunner, Vincent Serneels, and Sébastien Perret
  • Use of charcoal species for ironworking in Tanzania / Edwinus Chrisantus Lyaya
  • Quantifying iron production in medieval Europe : methodology and comparison with African metallurgy / Danielle Arribet-Deroin
  • The environmental impact of Romano-British ironworking on Exmoor / Ralph Fyfe, Lee Bray, Gillian Juleff, Jessie Woodbridge, and Peter Marshall
  • The fuel supply and woodland management at a 14th century bloomery in Snowdonia : a multi-disciplinary approach / Peter Crew and Tim Mighall.