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Iron Working and the Iron Age in Africa
· Introduction. Iron technology first appears in the African continent in the 1st millennium BCE, and the term Iron Age is generally used, certainly south of the Sahara, to describe ironusing communities in Africa until the modern historical thus covers a very long period of time and is used to describe a great variety of different societies, from simple villagebased farmers and nomadic ...