Table of Contents

1. Remaking Knowledge about African Iron Technology
2. Historical and Cultural Contexts: Excavating History, Myth, and Ritual
3. Ethnoarchaeology and Experiment in Iron Technology
4. Ethnoarchaeology and Bricolage: Engaging Iron Smelting
5. A Technological Model of the Haya Process
6. Comparative Models: Forging a History of Haya Iron Smelting
7. Dynamic Models for an Archaeology of Iron Technology
8. Models for the Interpretation of Space: Smelting and Forging
9. An Archaeology of African Iron Symbolism
10. Reading Ideology in the Archaeological Record
11. A History of Landscape Transformation: Bringing the Past Up to the Present

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Pioneering study of the history and culture of African iron technology.

About the Author

Peter R. Schmidt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, editor of The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production, and co-editor (with Roderick J. McIntosh) of Plundering Africa's Past.