Interdisciplinary Research into Iron Metallurgy along the Drava River in Croatia The TransFER Project presents the results of the scientific project Production of Iron Along the Drava River During Antiquity and Middle Ages: Creation and Transfer of Knowledge, Technology and Commodities - TransFER project (IP 2016 - 06 - 5047) funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. The research presented explores the evidence for and nature of iron production in the lowland area of the central Drava River basin in Croatia during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, from the turn of the 4th to the early 9th centuries. The wide-ranging methodology of the project features non-destructive archaeological site identification (surface survey and geophysics), archaeological excavation of sites with attested bloomery iron production and processing along with their associated dwelling and settlement structures, as well as experimental archaeology. The record of bloomery iron production and processing is explored via an interdisciplinary approach which examines the technology used as well as the natural resources (bog iron ores, wood and plant remains) exploited in the production process. The results of the research testify to the importance and longevity of iron production in the area of the Drava river valley.
List of Contributors
Preface Tajana Sekelj Ivanan DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-1 ;
Methodological Approach to Detecting Archaeological Sites with Metallurgical
Activities on the Territory of the River Drava Basin and the Possibilities of
Analysing the Collected Information Ivan Valent, Tatjana Tkalec and Sinia
Krznar DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-2 ;
Results of Geophysical Investigations Related to the Excavated Remains of the
Late Antique and Early Mediaeval Iron Production Sites in the Podravina
Region, Croatia Branko Mui and Barbara Horn DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-3
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Archaeological Record of Iron Metallurgy Along the Drava River Tajana
Sekelj Ivanan and Tena Karavidovi DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-4 ;
Absolute Dating of the Virje and Hlebine Sites Katarina Boti DOI:
10.32028/9781803271026-5 ;
Mineralogical and Geochemical Characterization of Selected Bog Iron Ores and
Archaeological Samples of Roasted Iron Ores and Iron Slags Towards Their
Provenance Studies in the Podravina Region Tomislav Brenko, Sibila
Borojevi otari and Stanko Ruii DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-6 ;
Prehistoric Settlement at VirjeVolarski Breg/Suine Marko Dizdar and Daria
Lonjak Dizdar DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-7 ;
The Archaeological Remains of Settlement at Sites with Smelting Workshop
Features in the Podravina Region (Croatian Drava River Basin) Tajana Sekelj
Ivanan DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-8 ;
Anthracological Analysis of Samples from Four Sites with Smelting Activity
Around Virje and Hlebine Katarina Boti and Metka Culiberg DOI:
10.32028/9781803271026-9 ;
Plant Macro-Remains and Traces of Leaves from Virje and Hlebine Renata
otari and Tihana Vilovi DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-10 ;
Bone Remains from Archaeological Sites in the Podravina Area with Traces of
Metallurgical Activity Snjeana Kuir, Lucija Bastiani and Nikolina
kvorc DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-11 ;
Methodological Framework for Experiments Related to Bloomery Iron Production
Procedures: Ore Preparation and Smelting Tena Karavidovi DOI:
10.32028/9781803271026-12 ;
The Spatial Database of the TransFER project Tena Karavidovi DOI:
10.32028/9781803271026-13 ;
Knowledge Gathering and Dissemination of the Smelting Process Experience to
the Wider Community Robert imin DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-14 ;
Evidence of Iron Metallurgy at the Okuje Site from Findings to Presentation
in the Exhibition and More Aleksandra Bugar DOI: 10.32028/9781803271026-15
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Scientific and Professional Activities within the TransFER Project
(2017-2021) Tajana Sekelj Ivanan and Tena Karavidovi DOI:
10.32028/9781803271026-16
Tajana Sekelj Ivanan graduated archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb where she also obtained her doctorate in 1999. She is a Scientific Advisor Second Appointment (permanent position) at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, where she has been leading the TransFER project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. Tajana's scholarly interests include Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, settlements, ceramics, smelting workshops, smelting furnaces, and iron ore processing. Tajana received the Josip Brunmid annual award of the Croatian Archaeological Society for her monograph Podravina in the Early Middle Ages published in 2012. ;
Tena Karavidovi graduated archaeology at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is currently a doctoral fellow research assistant at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, and a member of theTransFER Project research group. Her doctoral thesis is related to technological and social aspects of iron production during late Antiquity and early Middle Ages.
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