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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"iron smelting"”.
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Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand
… sets out to document a regional survey of Early Iron Age sites in a part of the Lower Thukela Basin and report on the excavations and analysis of material from two sites, Mamba and Wosi. On the basis of the archaeological evidence iron smelting practices are discussed and the nature of first …
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Early Agricultural Communities in Lejja Southeastern Nigeria: An Archaeobotanical Investigation
… production and subsistence practices among early iron using communities in southeastern Nigeria. Lejja is a cluster of villages in Igboland, southeastern Nigeria where iron smelting flourished on an industrial scale from around the late first millennium BC. The huge number of slag blocks on the …
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Fragmented Landscapes: An Archaeology of Transformations in The Pra River Basin, Southern Ghana
… flakes, stone beads, ground stone tools, and iron slag were found on hilltop sites throughout the surveyed areas. Most of these sites represent a pre-Atlantic pattern of settlement that continues, to a lesser extent, into the early Atlantic era (1450-1700 CE). Long grinding slicks, possibly …
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Population variation within the Iron Age of southern Africa: an assessment using dental anthropological and cranio-mandibular metric techniques
Evidence for iron smelting, agriculture, elaborate pottery styles and increased sedentism appears abruptly in areas previously inhabited by hunter-gatherers and herders during the Early Iron Age (EIA) of southern Africa from around 250CE. Ceramic evidence connects these (cultural) populations to …
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Ironworking in late medieval Ireland, c. AD. 1200 to 1600
… None of these could have taken place without iron. Axes were needed for clearing woodland, ploughs for turning the soil, saws for wooden buildings and hammers and chisels for the stone ones, all of which could not realistically have been made from any other material. The many battles, waged …
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The Use of Coal for Ferrous Metallurgy in Roman Britain
… is definitively proven based on the analysis of iron production debris from a second-century CE blacksmithing workshop in Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum), Yorkshire, with confirmation from other Romano-British sites in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Northumberland, including from Hadrian’s Wall. This …