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" Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon: "
Scott MacEachern, David A. Scott, Molly O'Guinness Carlson, et al.
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1069864
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LA113493
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10.3213/2191-5784-10230
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English
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David A. Scott
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Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou
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Molly O'Guinness Carlson
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Scott MacEachern
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Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon: [Article] : Conservation, Metallurgical Analysis and Ethnoarchaeological Analogies\ Scott MacEachern, David A. Scott, Molly O'Guinness Carlson, et al.
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Leiden: Brill
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Journal of African Archaeology
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2013
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11/1
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39–54
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In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second millennium AD. The iron artefacts recovered included a cache of spear/arrow points found buried under a living floor, as well as a local hoe and a chain and a ‘barrette’ probably not of local provenance. This discovery has a number of points of interest: (1) ethnoarchaeological reenactments of iron smelts in the 1980s in the same region provide a rare opportunity for comparison of iron-working techniques over about five centuries in sub-Saharan Africa; (2) the variability in different forms of iron (including eutectoid steel) used in these artefacts; and (3) the welding of different forms of iron to produce composite artefacts. In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second millennium AD. The iron artefacts recovered included a cache of spear/arrow points found buried under a living floor, as well as a local hoe and a chain and a ‘barrette’ probably not of local provenance. This discovery has a number of points of interest: (1) ethnoarchaeological reenactments of iron smelts in the 1980s in the same region provide a rare opportunity for comparison of iron-working techniques over about five centuries in sub-Saharan Africa; (2) the variability in different forms of iron (including eutectoid steel) used in these artefacts; and (3) the welding of different forms of iron to produce composite artefacts.
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blacksmithing
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DGB sites
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ethnoarchaeology
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iron technology
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Mandara Mountains
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10.3213/2191-5784-10230
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