Books and Articles on the history of Iron technology in Africa

Metals in Past Societies: A Global Perspective on Indigenous African Metallurgy By Shadreck Chirikure

Metals in Mandara Mountains Society and Culture edited by Nicholas David

A Comparison of Early and Later Iron Age Societies in the Bassar Region of Togo Philip de Barros

The Origins of African Metallurgies by A.F.C. Holl

Book review essay: What do we know about African iron working? by D. Killick

Invention and Innovation in African Iron-smelting Technologies by David J Killick

Cairo to Cape: The Spread of Metallurgy Through Eastern and Southern Africa by D. Killick

Indigenous African Metallurgy: Nature and Culture by S. Terry Childs

When the smith is a woman: innovation, improvisation and ambiguity in the organisation of African iron metallurgy by Ezekiel Mtetwa et. al.

Preindustrial Mining and Metallurgy in Africa by F Bandama

Ferrous metallurgy from the Bir Massouda metallurgical precinct at Phoenician and Punic Carthage and the beginning of the North African Iron Age by Brett Kaufman et al.

Ancient Mining and Smelting Activities in the Wadi Abu Gerida Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Preliminary Results by Mai Rifai, Yasser Abd El-Rahman,

Investigating the ironworking remains in the Royal City of Meroe , Sudan by Chris Carey, The ancient iron mines of Meroe by Jane Humphris et al.

A New Radiocarbon Chronology for Ancient Iron Production in the Meroe Region of Sudan by Jane Humphris

Excavations at Walalde: New Light on the Settlement of the Middle Senegal Valley by Iron-Using People by A Deme

The Early Iron Metallurgy of Bassar, Togo: furnaces, metallurgical remains and iron objects by PL de Barros

Lejja archaeological site, Southeastern Nigeria and its potential for archaeological science research by Pamela Ifeoma Eze-Uzomaka et. al.

Iron metallurgy in West Africa: An Early Iron smelting site in the Mouhoun Bend, Burkina Faso by Augustin Ferdinand Charles Holl

Our Iron Smelting 14C Dates from Central Africa: From a Plain Appointment to a Full Blown Relationship" by Bernard Clist

A critical reappraisal of the chronological framework of the early Urewe Iron Age industry by Bernard Clist.

The Social Context of Iron Forging on the Kenya Coast by Chapurukha M. Kusimba

Did They or Didn't They Invent It? Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa by Stanley B. Alpern

African Iron Production and Iron-Working Technologies by LE Iles

Style, Technology, and Iron Smelting Furnaces in Bantu-Speaking Africa by S. Terry Childs

A technological and anthropological study of iron production in Venda, Limpopo Province, South Africa by Eric Ndivhuwo Mathoho

Early metallurgy and surplus without states in Africa south of the Sahara by Shadreck Chirikure

Innovation, Tradition and Metals at Kilwa Kisiwani by Stephanie Wynne-Jones

Pre-colonial iron production in Great Lakes Africa by Louise Iles

Asen: Dahomey history, and Forged memories of Iron by S. Blier

Asen: Identifying Form, Style and Artists by S. Blier.

Striking Iron The Art of African Blacksmiths by Allen F. Roberts and Marla C. Berns

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