Iron is iron 'til it is rust: Trade and Ecology in the Decline of West African Iron-Smelting

Autor:	Candice L. Goucher
Rok vydání:	1981
Předmět:	History West african Procurement Geography Ecology Deforestation Ecology (disciplines) Smelting Rust Archaeological evidence West africa
Zdroj:	The Journal of African History. 22:179-189
ISSN:	1469-5138 0021-8537
DOI:	10.1017/s0021853700019393
Popis:	Archaeological evidence and historical accounts have been used to examine the impact of trade and ecology on the decline of West African iron industries. Environmental changes including an increasingly desiccating climatic shift and widespread deforestation as a direct result of fuel procurement over centuries of iron-smelting and European coastal exploitation, seriously affected the survivability of these industries. While the increasing importation of European iron bars and other manufactured goods necessitated a certain amount of technological innovation, the only viable long-term response and adaptation to the ecological devastation became the increased reliance on imported supplies of iron.
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