{"id":562,"date":"2014-04-03T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T08:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/?page_id=562"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T08:04:55","slug":"ethnoarcheology-of-traditional-forge-techniques","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/projects\/mali\/palaeometallurgy\/ethnoarcheology-of-traditional-forge-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnoarchaeology of traditional forge techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_602\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/RS_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-602 \" alt=\"Material for traditionnal forge tests in Dogon Country (January 2008). Left : different kinds of iron used : ancient iron bars, modern bars with different sections. Center : a hoe a big knife. Right : a forge slag . Photo R. Soulignac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/RS_01-300x158.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Material for traditional forge tests in Dogon Country (January 2008). Left : different kinds of iron used (ancient iron bars, modern bars with different sections). Center : a hoe and a big knife. Right : a forge slag. Photo R. Soulignac<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The smiths of the villages in the Dogon Country continue to make most of the tools for daily life with traditional techniques: hoes, axes, knives, etc. The aims of this research are to describe these forging techniques and to understand the relationships between the different procedures and the resulting waste (slag and rust).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_603\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/RS_02_350_263.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-603 \" alt=\"The smith Ti\u00e9g\u00e9 Jo during a forging operation. Photo R. Soulignac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/RS_02_350_263-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The smith Ti\u00e9g\u00e9 Jo during a forging operation. Photo R. Soulignac<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Observations made under controlled conditions permit more rigorous interpretation of the abundant forge slags found during archaeological excavations in Mali, but also applicable to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>We study the different factors that influence the formation of waste: work length, temperatures reached, iron or steel working, working of raw or prepared iron, thermic treatments (soldering, reheating, tempering), specific technological actions (soldering), etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unifr.ch\/geoscience\/geology\/en\/staff\/phd\/r.-soulignac\">Rapha\u00eblle Soulignac<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smiths of the villages in the Dogon Country continue to make most of the tools for daily life with traditional techniques: hoes, axes, knives, etc. The aims of this research are to describe these forging techniques and to understand<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/projects\/mali\/palaeometallurgy\/ethnoarcheology-of-traditional-forge-techniques\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":471,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-accueil.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ounjougou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}