Iron slag (Material Keyword)

PROJECT Uploaded by: Zach McKeeby

This dissertation project studies frontier dynamics in one ‘in-between’ location between emergent state systems in southern Africa: the Machile Valley in Western Zambia. I bring together historical, ethnographic, metallurgical, archaeological, and geophysical data to reconstruct the work of craftspeople – and particularly of iron workers – over the longue durée along internal frontiers in Western Zambia between the 8th and 18th centuries CE. In doing so, I situate crafting within its larger...

DATASET Zach McKeeby.

Bulk compositional data of analyzed samples analyzed as part of the Machile Valley Research Project. Slag samples were homogenized and pressed into pellets using a wax binder, and analyzed using a Panalytical Benchtop Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer. in subsequent sheets, bulk percentages are converted to oxides and normalized. Ternary phase diagram chart data is also supplied