Wild Wonders Watch the Water Bellows Smelt Iron Using Primitive Methods Posted: March 3, 2025 | Last updated: March 3, 2025 "Primitive Technology is all about building in the wild from scratch ...

As Dr Srinivasan notes in her own article in this issue, the consensus among archaeometallurgists—those who specialise in the study of prehistoric and historic metallurgy—has been that iron smelting ...

As per a report of State Archaeology Department of Tamil Nadu, the ancient peoples who inhabited the region had knowledge of iron smelting and used iron tools as far back as 5,300 years ago.

Since extracting metallic iron from ores (smelting) is more complex than extracting copper, the Iron Age followed the advent of copper smelting in most parts of the ancient world, including Anatolia.

This suggests that the process of extracting, smelting, forging and shaping iron to create tools, weapons and other objects may have developed independently in the Indian subcontinent.

He said the NRC would treat any smelting foundry caught collaborating with these vandals as economic saboteurs. “We would not stop warning all those in the iron smelting business to stop ...

That research indicated that all iron used before the iron age had come from meteorites, and never from smelting ore. Jambon and his colleagues want to find out more about the development of iron ...

CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in ...