Beschreibung:
His investigation of the rich symbolism surrounding traditional methods of iron production sheds light on the history of iron technology and reveals its central cultural role.
1. Remaking Knowledge about African Iron Technology2. Historical and Cultural Contexts: Excavating History, Myth, and Ritual3. Ethnoarchaeology and Experiment in Iron Technology4. Ethnoarchaeology and Bricolage: Engaging Iron Smelting5. A Technological Model of the Haya Process6. Comparative Models: Forging a History of Haya Iron Smelting7. Dynamic Models for an Archaeology of Iron Technology8. Models for the Interpretation of Space: Smelting and Forging9. An Archaeology of African Iron Symbolism10. Reading Ideology in the Archaeological Record11. A History of Landscape Transformation: Bringing the Past Up to the Present