Iron Age Africa (Temporal 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.

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