عنوان

IRON SMELTING IN PRE-COLONIAL ZIMBABWE:

شماره

LA113658

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

IRON SMELTING IN PRE-COLONIAL ZIMBABWE:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

EVIDENCE FOR DIACHRONIC CHANGE FROM SWART VILLAGE AND BARANDA, NORTHERN ZIMBABWE

نام نخستين پديدآور

Shadreck Chirikure, Thilo Rehren, Shadreck Chirikure, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In conventional reconstructions of southern African archaeology, the production of iron has been seen as unchanging for the last 2000 years. Significantly, this contrasts with the changes that have been noted in broader society and other classes of material culture of the same period. Despite iron being used as a chronostratigraphic indicator, virtually nothing is known on the patterns of iron production within the Iron Age and whether change in technology and the socio-cultural context of production took place. From a combined archaeological and metallurgical perspective, the historical development of iron working has never been explored. For example, it is not known whether similar types of furnaces were constantly operated throughout the last two millennia. Excavations at two sites in northern Zimbabwe, one Gokomere-Ziwa (800 - 1200 cal AD) and one Zimbabwe tradition (1500 - 1700 cal AD), have shown differences in iron pyrometallurgical debris, tentatively suggesting that they represent separate metal working practices. By comparing the archaeological and metallurgical evidence from the two sites, this paper represents an initial step in delineating patterns of indigenous iron production in one region of Zimbabwe. In conventional reconstructions of southern African archaeology, the production of iron has been seen as unchanging for the last 2000 years. Significantly, this contrasts with the changes that have been noted in broader society and other classes of material culture of the same period. Despite iron being used as a chronostratigraphic indicator, virtually nothing is known on the patterns of iron production within the Iron Age and whether change in technology and the socio-cultural context of production took place. From a combined archaeological and metallurgical perspective, the historical development of iron working has never been explored. For example, it is not known whether similar types of furnaces were constantly operated throughout the last two millennia. Excavations at two sites in northern Zimbabwe, one Gokomere-Ziwa (800 - 1200 cal AD) and one Zimbabwe tradition (1500 - 1700 cal AD), have shown differences in iron pyrometallurgical debris, tentatively suggesting that they represent separate metal working practices. By comparing the archaeological and metallurgical evidence from the two sites, this paper represents an initial step in delineating patterns of indigenous iron production in one region of Zimbabwe.

تاريخ نشر

2006

توصيف ظاهري

37-54

عنوان

Journal of African Archaeology

شماره جلد

4/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2191-5784

اصطلاح موضوعی

Gokomere-Ziwa

اصطلاح موضوعی

iron working remains

اصطلاح موضوعی

natural draft

اصطلاح موضوعی

slag tapping

اصطلاح موضوعی

tuyeres

اصطلاح موضوعی

Zimbabwe tradition

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Shadreck Chirikure

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Thilo Rehren

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/10.3213/1612-1651-10062

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y