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Wootz Crucible Steel: A Newly Discovered Production Site in South India

Year: 1994

Type: article

Abstract: During the course of field investigations of copper mining and smelting in South India, the author of this paper came across a previously unrecorded archaeometallurgical site in Mel-siruvalur, South Arcot district, Tamil Nadu, which investigations have confinned was a production centre for wootz crucible steel in the Deccan. The find of this production centre supports the idea that wootz steel production was relatiYely widespread in South India, and extends the known horizons of this technology further.

Source: Papers from the Institute of Archaeology

DOI: 10.5334/101

Author: Sharad Srinivasan

Language: English

Topic: Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4241234012

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Cites: 9

Cited by: 4

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