Iron technology in East Africa: symbolism, science, and archaeology

Abstract

Remaking knowledge about African iron technology historical and cultural contexts - excavating history, myth and ritual ethnoarchaeology and experiment in iron technology ethnoarchaeology and bricolage - engaging iron smelting a technological model of the Haya process comparative models - forging a history of Haya iron smelting dynamic models for an archaeology of iron technology models for the interpretation of space - smelting and forging an archaeology of African iron symbolism reading ideology in the archaeological record a history of landscape transformation - bringing the past up to the present.