Assessing the Quality of Iron Ores for Bloomery Smelting: Laboratory Experiments

There is fragmentary knowledge of iron ore sources exploited in the past for many regions including the Southern Levant. This missing information has the potential to shed light on political, economic, craft-production, and trading patterns of past societies. This paper presents the results of smelt...

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Main Authors: Ivan Stepanov, Konstantin Borodianskiy, Adi Eliyahu-Behar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-12-01
Series:Minerals
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/10/1/33