Iron Technology in East Africa

Symbolism, Science and Archaeology

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

AvPeter R. Schmidt

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The purpose of this study is to recuperate the history of African iron technology.Through a cross-cultural and comparative approach, it reveals both changes and significant continuities in the symbolism that conferred meaning to iron smelting over two thousand years in East and Central Africa.North America: Indiana U Press

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1997-01-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt540 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagJames Currey
ISBN9780852557433

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Remaking knowledge about African iron technology; historical and cultural contexts - excavating history, myth and ritual; ethnoarchaeology and experiment in iron technology; ethnoarchaeology and bricolage - engaging iron smelting; a technological model of the Haya process; comparative models - forging a history of Haya iron smelting; dynamic models for an archaeology of iron technology; models for the interpretation of space - smelting and forging; an archaeology of African iron symbolism; reading ideology in the archaeological record; a history of landscape transformation - bringing the past up to the present.

Like the act of iron smelting itself, this important book can be understood and used on many levels: as a technological reference on a vanished craft; as a reference tool for archaeologists to analyse and explain the evidence of ironworking; as a study of the role ritual and belief play in technological process of recent societies; and - more challenging, more problematic - the use of this to understand symbolism and cognition in the earlier societies of the African Iron Age.