Origin and Evolution of the Earliest Iron-Smelting Technologies in the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Origin and Evolution of the Earliest Iron-Smelting Technologies in the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin

Published:2023-04-06 Issue:1 Volume:51 Page:127-137
ISSN:1563-0110
Container-title:Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
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Short-container-title:Arheol. ètnogr. antropol. Evrazii

Author:

Amzarakov P. B.¹

Affiliation:

1. ANO “Archaeology of Khakassia”

Abstract

The Khakass-Minusinsk Basin is archaeologically one of the best studied regions of Russia. Bronze artifacts from the pre-Scythian and Scythian epoch from that area are famous worldwide. However, iron production appears rather late there. From 2009 to 2018, a joint Russian-Japanese expedition excavated several sites documenting the earliest iron manufacture in the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin. On the basis of these excavations and experiments, metallurgical technology was reconstructed. The results suggest an evolutionary model of metal production in the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin during the Xiongnu-Sarmatian period. Three types of iron-smelting furnaces are described, structurally differing in terms of air-blasting and slag removal. The conclusion is made that the initial iron production technology had been borrowed, and later evolved in situ.

Publisher

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Subject

Cultural Studies,Archeology

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