African metallurgy in the Atlantic world

Autor: Candice L. Goucher
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: The African Archaeological Review. :197-215
ISSN: 1572-9842
0263-0338
DOI: 10.1007/bf01118148
Popis: This paper examines the history of African metallurgy in the era of Atlantic trade. It reports on excavations at the John Reeder foundry site in St Thomas, Jamaica. The transfer of African technologies to the Caribbean reveals the plantation economy's dependence on African technical expertise, not merely slave labour. The comprehensive focus on the Atlantic world also informs archaeological investigations of African-European interaction in West Central Africa. The complexity of Atlantic technological history is characterized by a diverse range of dynamic interactions, rather than the inevitable decline of Africanderived systems. Only by identifying processes as well as products of African technological interaction will it be possible fully to reconstruct the forging of the African past.
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