The world of iron
By: edited by Jane Humphris and Thilo Rehren
Contributors: Humphris, Jane, editor; Rehren, Thilo, editor
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9781904982975
Subjects: Iron; Congresses; Metallurgy; History; Metal-work, Prehistoric; Metallurgy in archaeology
Notes: Papers originally presented at the World of Iron Conference held February 16-20, 2009, at the Natural History Museum in London. (Foreword)

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