Some list-members may be interested in:
Ancient African Metallurgy: the Sociocultural Context by Michael S.
Bisson, S. Terry Childs, Philip de Barros and Augustin F. C. Holl.
(Altamira Press, 2000. 294 pp; ISBN 0-7425-0260-0 (cloth), 0 -7425-0261-9
(paper)).
This consists of four long essays. These are (1) Metals and precolonial
African scoiety, by Augustin Holl (pp.1-81); (2) Precolonial copper
metallurgy: sociopolitical context, by Michael Bisson (pp. 83-146); Iron
metallurgy: sociocultural context, by Philip de Barros (pp. 147-198); and
(4) Traditional iron working: a narrated ethnoarchaeological example, by
S. Terry Childs (pp. 199-254).
The title is a bit misleading since only the first essay deals with
"ancient" metallurgy; the second and third are part archaeology, part
history and part ethnography; and the fourth is a more-or-less verbatim
translated and transcribed oral tradition. But all make interesting
reading.
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David Killick
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030.
Phones: office (520)621-8685; laboratory 621-7986; fax 621-2088
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