The study of South African ethnographic and archaeological literature led to the construction and operation of an experimental forge, where small amounts of good quality bloomery iron could be ...

"Dedicated to Professor Radomír Pleiner." "Within this volume, several authors from both western and eastern Europe introduces in eighteen contributions recent and/or summarizing results of ...

Three thousand years ago, a group of metalworkers in what is now southern Georgia were trying to solve a problem. Their copper ores were messy, clogged with silica that turned to sticky glass in the ...

High in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, where the borders of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and China meet, the frozen ground ...