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EAD21 at APPA-VC
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Review: Journal of Ethnoarchaeology
Eline Schotsmans PhD
Eline M.J. Schotsmans is a research fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia and the University of Bordeaux, France.
Book Review: Reconstruction, Replication, and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Book Review: Road to the Vikings – Bridge between two Worlds by Linda Boye, Klaus Mejer Mynzberg and Mads Thernøe
Interview: Pascal Ratier, Coordinator of the European Archaeology Days
Book Review: Proceedings from the ReConference 2018
Approaches to the Documentation of Houses in Open-Air Museums
Standardized Reporting of Experimental Iron Smelting - A modest (?) Proposal
Background: The State of an Art?
Over the last three decades, bloomery iron smelting has moved from the largely theoretical to the practical. Although there were certainly earlier attempts via experimental process to build workable furnaces, most of these attempts were basically unsuccessful, at least in terms of actual iron production. Early researchers too often undertook (or at least only formally reported on) limited test series (one or two attempts) and many concentrated far too much on slag, not on the production of metallic iron itself.