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Iron metallurgy in Africa concerns the origin and development of ferrous metallurgy on the African continent.Whereas the development of iron metallurgy in North Africa and the Horn closely mirrors that of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean region, the three-age system is ill-suited to Sub-Saharan Africa, where copper metallurgy generally does not precede iron working. [1]
The trans-Saharan trade routes connected West African iron-producing regions to North Africa and the Mediterranean, facilitating the exchange of goods, ideas, and technologies. [2] Similarly, the Indian Ocean trade network linked East African iron goods to markets in the Middle East , South Asia , and Southeast Asia , promoting cross-cultural ...
The engineering and methodology (e.g., cultural valuations, use of iron tools) used in the construction of West African dugout canoes (e.g., rounded point sterns and pointed bows with 15° - 50° angle above water surface, increased stability via partly rounded or flat base, v-shaped hull, shallow draft for sailing water depths less than one ...
Iron smelting has been dated to 2,000 BC in southeast Nigeria. [70] Central Africa provides possible evidence of iron working as early as the 3rd millennium BC. [71] Iron smelting developed in the area between Lake Chad and the African Great Lakes between 1,000 and 600 BC, and in West Africa around 2,000 BC, long before the technology reached ...
Iron smelting has been dated to 2,000 BC in southeast Nigeria. [78] Central Africa provides possible evidence of iron working as early as the 3rd millennium BC. [79] Iron smelting developed in the area between Lake Chad and the African Great Lakes between 1,000 and 600 BC, and in West Africa around 2,000 BC, long before the technology reached ...
The artifacts recovered from this grave are variously made of wrought iron, cast iron, malleabilized cast iron, and quench-hardened steel, with only a few, probably ornamental, bronze weapons. An illustration of furnace bellows operated by waterwheels, from the Nong Shu, by Wang Zhen, 1313 AD, during the Yuan dynasty in China
It thus appears that iron metallurgy was introduced into the African continent from Mediterranean craftsmen. [7] The Iron Age marks the addition of metallurgy to the technical repertoire of sub-Sahara African people, as stated above. The process of iron smelting is complex and represents a significant improvement in technological capability.
In the furnace floor, a small pit was discovered that contained a 6-cm-tall piece of prehistoric iron bloom, which was shown to have no relationship to the technological operation of the furnace. [5] Later metallurgical analysis of the iron bloom shows evidence that the piece of iron had been produced by a smelting process that had formed large ...