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“Cult and Copper”: A VR Game Exploring the Intangible Heritage of Copper Smelting
Cyberarchaeology trends encourage the creation of multi-sensory projects that leverage the affordances of multi-media and strive to create embodied...
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Experimental Bloomery Iron Smelting in the Study of Iron Technology in the Southern Levant
Iron production is often considered one of humankind’s most significant technological advances. While the identification of ironworking remains has...
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Iron Smelting Industry of Kedah Tua: A Geophysical Map** for Buried Furnace
Being one of the best iron producers in the prehistoric world, Sungai Mas of Kedah Tua was an entrepot for various world civilisations including...
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The innovation of iron and the **ongnu – a case study from Central Mongolia
This article presents the oldest iron smelting furnaces of the **ongnu Empire period in central Mongolia and argues that a significant smelting...
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Iron Making in Fornovolasco (Italy) at the End of the Fifteenth Century, the Canecchio Furnace, and an Artifact Characterization
This study investigates the rise of the Este family in Garfagnana (Tuscany, Italy) during the first half of the 15th century. The Este wanted to...
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Iron Age Copper Metallurgy in Southeast Arabia: A Comparative Perspective
From the southern Levant to southeast Arabia, new technologies and social networks shaped metal production and trade in a variety of important ways....
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Micro-Scale Iron Smelting in Early Iron Age to Mongol Period Steppe Communities of North-Central Mongolia and its Implications
Given the high level of technological sophistication involved in iron smelting, a common assumption held is that small mobile communities of the...
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Reading the archaeometallurgical findings of Yodhawewa site, Sri Lanka: contextualizing with South Asian metal history
This study aimed to provide a chronological interpretation of the Yodhawewa settlement and interpret metalworking activities based on artifacts...
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Copper and Bronze Tools and Weapons of the Petrovka Culture of the Southern Trans-Urals and the Middle Tobol Basin: Alloys, Historical and Metallurgical Relations
The results of an analytical study of 106 metal tools and 70 ingots of the Petrovka culture of the Southern Trans-Urals and the Middle Tobol Basin...
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Variability of Early Iron Production in the Falémé Valley Region, Eastern Senegal
Iron production represents a major technological shift in African prehistory, and a growing body of archaeological and archaeometric data over the...
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Copper Metallurgy in the Andes
Like the Eastern Hemisphere, the cultures of the Americas developed a rich tradition of metallurgy millennia ago. The Andes were an independent...
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A Social Archaeometallurgy of Bronze Age Cyprus
As a major producer of copper throughout the Bronze Age (ca. 2400–1100 BC), the island of Cyprus assumed a key role in the social and economic...
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Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa
Ongoing research continues to show that ancient Africans had their own versions of science that were embedded in local contexts. The apparent lack of...
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Comprehensive Technologies for Space Archaeology
Earth observation takes the Earth as the research object to rely on space platforms such as satellites, spacecraft, near-space vehicles, and the...
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Organizing Principles in Early Bronze Age Copper Manufacturing
Metals played an important role in the maintenance of elite structures as an item of “wealth finance” in ancient societies. The affordance structure...
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The New Frontier of Scrap Recycling
This chapter establishes the foundation and rapid expansion of a private steel corporation in a frontier terrain leveraging both the relative...
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Ceramics of the **a and Shang Dynasties
TheCeramics **a Dynasty**a Dynasty wasShang Dynasty thePottery earliest of theBronze Age three founding dynastiesThree founding dynasties (**a, Shang...
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Heritage event as tourist attraction: the case of Dymarki Swietokrzyskie, Poland
While previous research has focused on heritage visitor attractions few studies have examined visitation to and experience of ancient industrial...
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Mumbwa Caves, Zambia
South-central Africa as represented by the modern political boundaries of Zambia offers few geological contexts for the preservation of deeply...