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Too Old? Remarks on New Evidence of Ironworking in North-Central Africa

Too Old? Remarks on New Evidence of Ironworking in North-Central Africa Too old? Remarks on New Evidence of Ironworking in North-Central Africa Manfred K.H. Eggert The preceding paper by É. Zangato and A.F.C. Holl presents fascinating new evidence of very old iron in the Djohong area of north-eastern Cameroon near the border to the Central African Republic. It has already elicited some rather controversial comments by S. MacEachern, D. Killick and B. Clist, which were cited by H. Pringle (2009) in an article on the new findings in Science Magazine. Zangato and Holl have answered to this in their article. It has long been known that neither Meroë nor Assyrian-dominated Egypt nor the Phoenician and Greek colonies of North Africa can be claimed as the origin and way station respectively of sub-Saharan iron production (Miller & van der Merwe 1994; wiesMüller 1996; e ggerT 1999 [1984]). Considering the impressive number of radiocarbon dates for first millennium BCE iron in sub-Saharan Africa there is simply no sufficiently old empirical evidence of iron from either Meroë or Assyrian Egypt or the Phoenician and Greek colonies. Accordingly, Zangato and Holl rightly reject any diffusion theory of iron production and ironworking on empirical grounds. As the German cultural anthropologist and sociologist W.E. MühlMann http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Archaeology Brill

Too Old? Remarks on New Evidence of Ironworking in North-Central Africa

Eggert, Manfred K.H.
Journal of African Archaeology , Volume 8 (1): 37 – Oct 25, 2010
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Too old? Remarks on New Evidence of Ironworking in North-Central Africa Manfred K.H. Eggert The preceding paper by É. Zangato and A.F.C. Holl presents fascinating new evidence of very old iron in the Djohong area of north-eastern Cameroon near the border to the Central African Republic. It has already elicited some rather controversial comments by S. MacEachern, D. Killick and B. Clist, which were cited by H. Pringle (2009) in an article on the new findings in Science Magazine. Zangato and Holl have answered to this in their article. It has long been known that neither Meroë nor Assyrian-dominated Egypt nor the Phoenician and Greek colonies of North Africa can be claimed as the origin and way station respectively of sub-Saharan iron production (Miller & van der Merwe 1994; wiesMüller 1996; e ggerT 1999 [1984]). Considering the impressive number of radiocarbon dates for first millennium BCE iron in sub-Saharan Africa there is simply no sufficiently old empirical evidence of iron from either Meroë or Assyrian Egypt or the Phoenician and Greek colonies. Accordingly, Zangato and Holl rightly reject any diffusion theory of iron production and ironworking on empirical grounds. As the German cultural anthropologist and sociologist W.E. MühlMann

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