The coming of iron in the Eastern Mediterranean: Thirty years of archaeological and technological research
The coming of iron in the Eastern Mediterranean: Thirty years of archaeological and technological research
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1999
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J. C. Waldbaum
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J. C. Waldbaum
直到20世纪60年代中期，关于铁在地中海东部出现的理论都是基于一些基本上未经检验的假设，所有这些假设都基于铁作为实用和军事材料天生上级青铜的信念。本文将回顾过去30年来关于铁的早期生产和使用的一些主要考古和技术研究，并将展示这项新研究如何影响我们对这些先前持有的假设的思考。它将检查目前正在探索的一些较新的假设，然后指出一些主要的未回答的问题仍然存在。
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 an 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.