Anthropology.net9h ago

A 2,400-year-old iron smelting workshop in Senegal ran for nearly 800 years and barely changed its technique throughout. New research reveals what that kind of continuity looks like in the ground. #Archaeology #AfricanHistory #Archaeometallurgy

https://www.anthropology.net/p/eight-centuries-at-the-furnace-a

Eight Centuries at the Furnace: A West African Iron Workshop That Refused to Change

New excavations at a 2,400-year-old smelting site in Senegal reveal a metallurgical tradition that held steady for nearly eight hundred years.

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Scientific Frontline19h ago
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/arch03312601.html
An exceptionally well-preserved iron-smelting workshop located in eastern Senegal provides detailed evidence of sub-Saharan African iron production dating back 2,400 years.
#Archaeology #Archaeometallurgy #Anthropology #sflorg
Tracking the footsteps of West Africa's prehistoric metalworkers

The discovery of a 2,400-year-old metalworking workshop in Senegal provides new insights into the history of iron production in Africa.

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Archaeoethnologica: Trabajos de Prehistoria Nº 82/2 - 2025

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