The Archaeometallurgy of Iron: Recent Developments in Archaeological and Scientific Research

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 archaeological and scientific research into the making and working of iron in antiquity and more recent periods, along with a number of related issues. The book is divided into following sections: 1) examples of ancient bloomery furnaces and the development of iron metallurgy in Europe, 2) examples of research on ancient and early European iron forging, 3) examples of involvement of archaeometallurgy into archaeological, historical and historical-technological research, 4) examples of experimental archaeometallurgy.