Iron technology in East Africa : symbolism, science, and archaeology / Peter R. Schmidt.
Iron technology in East Africa : symbolism, science, and archaeology / Peter R. Schmidt.
Iron technology in East Africa : symbolism, science, and archaeology / Peter R. Schmidt.
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Oxford : James Currey, c1997.
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N669.141096/1
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English
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Physical content
xii, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Remaking Knowledge about African Iron Technology -- 2. Historical and Cultural Contexts: Excavating History, Myth, and Ritual -- 3. Ethnoarchaeology and Experiment in Iron Technology -- 4. Ethnoarchaeology and Bricolage: Engaging Iron Smelting -- 5. A Technological Model of the Haya Process -- 6....
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Publisher
Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Oxford : James Currey, c1997.
Place of Publication
Indiana
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Peter R. Schmidt distills more than twenty years of research and scholarship into this major work on the history and culture of iron technology in East Africa from ancient times to the present. Although archaeologists have long held that ironmaking spread from a single point of origin in Europe, Schmidt shows that African iron smelting developed in...
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Iron technology in East Africa : symbolism, science, and archaeology / Peter R. Schmidt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-318) and index.
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c1997.
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N669.141096/1
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74VMj5EBm3wX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMj5EBm3wX
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ISBN
0852557434 (Currey pbk.)
9780253332554 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253332559 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253211095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253211093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780852557433 (Currey pbk.)
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669.141096
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991001281819702626
