عنوان

Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon:

شماره

LA113493

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Conservation, Metallurgical Analysis and Ethnoarchaeological Analogies

نام نخستين پديدآور

Scott MacEachern, David A. Scott, Molly O'Guinness Carlson, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second millennium AD. The iron artefacts recovered included a cache of spear/arrow points found buried under a living floor, as well as a local hoe and a chain and a 'barrette' probably not of local provenance. This discovery has a number of points of interest: (1) ethnoarchaeological reenactments of iron smelts in the 1980s in the same region provide a rare opportunity for comparison of iron-working techniques over about five centuries in sub-Saharan Africa; (2) the variability in different forms of iron (including eutectoid steel) used in these artefacts; and (3) the welding of different forms of iron to produce composite artefacts. In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second millennium AD. The iron artefacts recovered included a cache of spear/arrow points found buried under a living floor, as well as a local hoe and a chain and a 'barrette' probably not of local provenance. This discovery has a number of points of interest: (1) ethnoarchaeological reenactments of iron smelts in the 1980s in the same region provide a rare opportunity for comparison of iron-working techniques over about five centuries in sub-Saharan Africa; (2) the variability in different forms of iron (including eutectoid steel) used in these artefacts; and (3) the welding of different forms of iron to produce composite artefacts.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

39-54

عنوان

Journal of African Archaeology

شماره جلد

11/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2191-5784

اصطلاح موضوعی

blacksmithing

اصطلاح موضوعی

DGB sites

اصطلاح موضوعی

ethnoarchaeology

اصطلاح موضوعی

iron technology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mandara Mountains

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

David A. Scott

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Molly O'Guinness Carlson

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Scott MacEachern

شماره بازیابی

10.3213/2191-5784-10230

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y