My graduate student Dana Drake Rosenstein gave a paper on this topic at the World of Iron Conference at UCL a couple of years ago, covering radiocarbon, archaeomagnetic dating and optically stimulated luminescence and thermoluminescence. Try contacting her at [log in to unmask]
I have some pithy comments about the problems of radiocarbon dating early metallurgy in Africa, India, Iberia and Thailand in a review article on archaeometallurgy (coauthored with Tom Fenn) that is in press at the Annual Review of Anthropology. The electronic version of this will be up online in September.
David KillickSchool of AnthropologyUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZ85705, USA
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Subject: dating iron production sites
Greetings,
Has there been a recent summary of different dating techniques used for iron production sites including relative 'success' and caveats? It seems that most discussion is on a site-by-site basis or within general summaries of the technique. Thanks.
cheers
mitch
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