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ironworking

Description: The craft and process of producing, shaping, and working objects made from iron, studied in archaeology and history.
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The Archaeology of Africa: food, metals and towns
1994 · Choice Reviews Online · 591
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the African Iron Age
1982 · T N Huffman · Annual Review of Anthropology · 303
The early history of metallurgy in Europe
1987 · Ronald F. Tylecote · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 274
The Mande blacksmiths: knowledge, power, and art in West Africa
1988 · Choice Reviews Online · 269
Austronesian culture history: Some linguistic inferences and their relations to the archaeological record
1976 · Robert Blust · World Archaeology · 219
The Early Iron Age and the Spread of the Bantu
1970 · Thomas N. Huffman · The South African Archaeological Bulletin · 215
Craft and social identity
1998 · Cathy Lynne Costin, R. P. Wright, et al. · 187
Indigenous African Metallurgy: Nature and Culture
1993 · S. Terry Childs, David Killick · Annual Review of Anthropology · 167
The End of the Bronze Age, Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B. C.
1994 · Joan Oates, R. Drews · Vetus Testamentum · 135
African Iron Working: Ancient and Traditional
1986 · Randi Haaland, P. L. Shinnie · 132
Thinking and acting with iron
1993 · Charles Keller, Janet Dixon Keller · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 131
We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes
1993 · David L. Schoenbrun · The Journal of African History · 129
The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade
2016 · Daniela Comelli, Massimo D'orazio, et al. · Meteoritics and Planetary Science · 120
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Transformations in Africa : essays on Africa's later past
1998 · Graham Connah · 110
Early West African Metallurgies: New Data and Old Orthodoxy
2009 · Augustin F. C. Holl · Journal of World Prehistory · 102
Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology
1998 · Michael Di Blasi, Peter R. Schmidt · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 102
What Do We Know About African Iron Working?
2004 · David Killick · Journal of African Archaeology · 101
Environmental change and political-economic upheaval in precolonial western Uganda
2000 · D. Taylor, P. Robertshaw, et al. · The Holocene · 97
Northern Islands, human error, and environmental degradation: A view of social and ecological change in the Medieval North Atlantic
1988 · Thomas H. McGovern, Gerald Bigelow, et al. · Human Ecology · 97
From Stone to Steel: Economic Consequences of a Technological Change in New Guinea.
1964 · Jack Goody, R. F. Salisbury · The Economic Journal · 95
Borneo and iron: Dempwolff's *besi revisited
2007 · Robert Blust · Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association · 94
Iron and bronze production in Iron Age IIA Philistia: new evidence from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel
2011 · Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Naama Yahalom-Mack, et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science · 93
Keftiubarren und Erzhandel im zweiten vorchristlichen Jahrtausend
1959 · Hans Günter Buchholz · Praehistorische Zeitschrift · 93
Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies
1996 · T. O. Beidelman, Eugenia W. Herbert · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 88
The Inland Niger Delta before the Empire of Mali: Evidence from Jenne-Jeno
1981 · Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech McIntosh · The Journal of African History · 87
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