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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: [QB] [IMG]https://tyrannoninja.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/early-ironworking-in-west-africa.jpg?w=819[/IMG] An Egyptian traveler visiting a village in West Africa circa 3000 BC wants to know what’s up with that grayish metal called “iron” they’ve been smelting and forging into tools. This little doodle was inspired by [URL=https://oxfordre.com/anthropology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.001.0001/acrefore-9780190854584-e-63?print=pdf]an advance summary for an upcoming report in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia[/URL], which mentions archaeological evidence that [URL=https://www.astenb.com/2019/07/african-origin-of-metallurgy-pushed.html]people in West and Central Africa were smelting iron as well as copper as far back as 3000 BC[/URL]. That would over two millennia before ironworking technology became a widespread trend anywhere in Eurasia, or even other regions of Africa like the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan. To be fair, the ancient Egyptians would sometimes make beads and even daggers out of iron mined from meteorites (they called it the “metal of heaven” for that reason), but it wasn’t until the 6th century BC when they started smelting the stuff for themselves. Another hotspot of ironworking in the Nile basin was in the Kushite city of Meroe, which had become the kingdom’s capital after 590 BC. I am honestly not yet sure why neither of these civilizations had picked up the technology earlier if it had been a thing further west in Africa for far longer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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