Hunter-gatherer metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia
The role of ferrous metallurgy in ancient communities of the Circumpolar North is poorly understood due, in part, to the widespread assumption that iron technology was a late introduction, passively received by local populations. Analyses of two recently excavated sites in northernmost Sweden, howev...
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crantiquitypubl:10.15184/aqy.2020.248 2024-05-19T07:40:06+00:00 Hunter-gatherer metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia Bennerhag, Carina Grandin, Lena Hjärtner-Holdar, Eva Stilborg, Ole Söderholm, Kristina Vetenskapsrådet 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.248 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X20002483 en eng Antiquity Publications http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Antiquity volume 95, issue 384, page 1511-1526 ISSN 0003-598X 1745-1744 journal-article 2021 crantiquitypubl https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.248 2024-05-01T06:47:28Z The role of ferrous metallurgy in ancient communities of the Circumpolar North is poorly understood due, in part, to the widespread assumption that iron technology was a late introduction, passively received by local populations. Analyses of two recently excavated sites in northernmost Sweden, however, show that iron technology already formed an integral part of the hunter-gatherer subsistence economy in Northern Fennoscandia during the Iron Age ( c . 200–50 BC). Such developed knowledge of steel production and complex smithing techniques finds parallels in contemporaneous continental Europe and Western Eurasia. The evidence presented raises broader questions concerning the presence of intricate metallurgical processes in societies considered less complex or highly mobile. Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandia Antiquity Antiquity 1 16 |
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The role of ferrous metallurgy in ancient communities of the Circumpolar North is poorly understood due, in part, to the widespread assumption that iron technology was a late introduction, passively received by local populations. Analyses of two recently excavated sites in northernmost Sweden, however, show that iron technology already formed an integral part of the hunter-gatherer subsistence economy in Northern Fennoscandia during the Iron Age ( c . 200–50 BC). Such developed knowledge of steel production and complex smithing techniques finds parallels in contemporaneous continental Europe and Western Eurasia. The evidence presented raises broader questions concerning the presence of intricate metallurgical processes in societies considered less complex or highly mobile. |
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Bennerhag, Carina Grandin, Lena Hjärtner-Holdar, Eva Stilborg, Ole Söderholm, Kristina Hunter-gatherer metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia |
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Hunter-gatherer metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia |
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Hunter-gatherer metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia |
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