For an ethnographic African iron smelt, look for _Dokwaza: Last of the 
African Iron Masters_ (1988) from the University of Calgary, directed 
by Nicholas David and Yves Le Bleis.  Also includes some metallographic 
and SEM analysis on the material by David Killick.

Best
Dana Drake Rosenstein


On 31 Oct 2008, at 8:44 AM, Dandridge, Pete wrote:

> Dear Andrea,
> You may want to take a look at the DVD included in the catalogue below 
> which shows Ubaldo Vitali’s replication casting of a medieval 
> aquamanile using only those materials and techniques available in the 
> Middle Ages - the DVD is sleeved into the back of the book and runs 
> about 45 min.
>  
> Lions, Dragons, & Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, 
> Vessels for Church and Table, eds. Peter Barnet and Pete Dandridge. 
> Exh. cat. The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 
> Design, and Culture. New York, 2006 (Yale University Press, London).
>  
> All the best,
> Pete Dandridge
>  
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: Arch-Metals Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
> Of A. Dolfini
>  Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:18 AM
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Subject: experimental casting
>  
> Dear all,
>  
> I am looking for an experimenal metallurgist willing to come to 
> Newcastle
> University during the next semester to perform a session of 
> experimental
> copper casting. If things go as they should be there will be also an
> opportunity for a similar performance on an open day at the beginning 
> of
> the next academic year. Does anybody have some contact names in 
> northern
> England/south Scotland please?
>  
> I am also looking for a couple of videos to be used as teaching 
> material
> for my new archaeometallurgy module. Ideally, one should show a copper
> smelting experiment, and the other should be about ironworking in an
> ethnographic (African?) context - but I am very much open to consider 
> any
> suitable alternatives as the course is still in preparation. The videos
> should be available for purchase by Newcastle University.
>  
> Thank you very much for your help.
>  
> Best wishes,
>  
> Andrea Dolfini
>  
>  
> Lecturer in Later European Prehistory
> School of Historical Studies
> First Floor Armstrong Building
> Newcastle University
> Newcastle Upon Tyne
> NE1 7RU
> United Kingdom
>  
> [log in to unmask]
> +44 (0)191 222 3402
>
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University of Arizona
Department of Anthropology
1009 E South Campus Drive
Tucson AZ   85721-0030
USA