Ref ID:	25753
Ref Type:	Book Section in a Series
Authors:	Waldbaum, Jane C.
Title:	The coming of iron in the eastern Mediterranean: thirty years of archaeological and technological research
Date:	1999
Source:	The archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World
Place of Publication:	Philadelphia
Publisher:	University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract:	Until the mid 1960s, theories on the advent of iron in the eastern Mediterranean were based on a number of largely unexamined assumptions, all predicated on the belief that iron was inherently superior to and more desirable than bronze as a utilitarian and military material. This article will review some of the major archaeological and technological research of the past three decades on the early production and use of iron and will show how this new research has affected our thinking on these previously held assumptions. It will examine some of the newer hypotheses currently being explored, and then point out some of the major unanswered questions that remain.
Date Created:	11/28/2007
Editors:	Pigott, Vincent C.
Page Start:	27
Page End:	57
Series Title:	University Museum Monograph 89 University Museum Symposium Series Vol. 7 MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology Vol. 16