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Smelting iron from rocks (primitive iron age extraction)

This is the moment the series leaves the Bronze Age behind. He explains why iron replaced bronze—iron ore is everywhere while tin trade can collapse—then traces where iron ore deposits came from (the ...
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Smelting Iron in Africa (2005)

Recorded in May 2005 in the Mossi village of Dabo, in northern Burkina Faso, the above video produced by the late Christopher Roy (1947-2019) documents the traditional way of smelting iron. We witness ...