Iron Age Africa (Temporal Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Zach McKeeby.

This dissertation 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 context...

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Full bag catalog of artifacts collected during the 2022 season fieldwork of the Machile Valley Research Project, conducted as part of ZM's doctoral dissertation research

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notes by ZM taken during human subject research semi-structured interviews with craftspeople in Machile, western Zambia in 2022, as part of ZM's dissertation fieldwork

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All field notes, survey records, plan/profile drawings, and excavation context sheets from the 2022 field season of the Machile Valley Research Project. Also included are artifact drawings and profile drawings of analyzed portions of the ceramics assemblage

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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

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description of all samples of Iron Age slags and other archeometallurgical materials exported in 2021 for XRF and OM analyses from Livingstone Museum collections

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notes and analyses of thin section samples analyzed during slag microscopy portion of research