Ref ID:	22245
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Tin Maung Nyunt, Ni Ni Khet,
Title:	Ancient iron furnaces of the Mount Popa region, central Myanmar
Date:	2018
Source:	Advancing Southeast Asian archaeology 2016
Place of Publication:	Bangkok
Publisher:	SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts
Abstract:	The study of the Iron Age culture in Central Myanmar has given so far much attention to several unearthed iron implements. Among them some samples of iron artefacts were analysed in previous studies using the archaeometallurgical method to reveal the type of iron and the iron production techniques of ancient people. The earliest iron objects were used in Central Myanmar since 500 BCE. But knowledge of early iron making processes is still lacking. Understanding the iron making process helps to highlight certain aspects of the material cultural level reached by societies at that time. This paper is an attempt to rediscover the early iron making technique of ancient Myanmar and starts with a study of iron making sites situated in the Popa Mountain region by using an archaeometallurgical approach.
Identifier:	978-616-7961-16-3
Date Created:	4/4/2018
Editors:	Tan, Noel Hidalgo
Page Start:	185
Page End:	192