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FROM RAW IRON TO SEMI‐PRODUCT: QUALITY AND CIRCULATION OF MATERIALS DURING THE IRON AGE IN FRANCE*
Author(s) -
BERRANGER M.,
FLUZIN P.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00641.x
Subject(s) - raw material , circulation (fluid dynamics) , iron age , raw data , iron ore , product (mathematics) , metallurgy , production (economics) , quality (philosophy) , computer science , archaeology , geography , materials science , engineering , mathematics , biology , ecology , economics , geometry , macroeconomics , aerospace engineering , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
Iron raw materials provide a privileged source of information for the reconstruction of metallurgical techniques and the circulation of iron products. An interdisciplinary approach, combining archaeological and archaeometrical studies of the exemplars known from the French Iron Age, has been undertaken. This enables a new typological classification to be produced that demonstrates a correlation between morphological and structural properties. Through comparison with chronological data, it is possible to propose a reconstruction of the organization of production according to three main periods, which are characterized by the circulation of different qualities of iron and by diverse levels of artisanal specialization.