East Germanic Ironmaking in the Roman Period: Archaeometry of Slag and Ore Finds in the Przeworsk Culture...

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Grzegorz Zabinski (Jan Dlugosz University, Poland) Marcin Wozniak (Museum of Ancient Masovian Metallurgy, Poland)

East Germanic Ironmaking in the Roman Period

Archaeometry of Slag and Ore Finds in the Przeworsk Culture

Grzegorz Zabinski (Jan Dlugosz University, Poland), Marcin Wozniak (Museum of Ancient Masovian Metallurgy, Poland), Jaroslaw Gramacki (University of Zielona Góra, Poland) , Artur Gramacki (University of Zielona Góra, Poland)

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Bloomsbury Academic
04 September 2025

Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Metals technology & metallurgy

Making a study of East Germanic iron smelting in the Roman period, this open access book gives an in-depth account of the development of metallurgy in the Przeworsk Culture. Its two main ironmaking centres – the Holy Cross Mountains and Masovia – were the largest iron production regions beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. Apart from serving local demand – where it was used for artefacts of many kinds, which are abundantly found in grave furnishings – a considerable part of Przeworsk Culture iron is likely to have been exported to other territories.

Despite more than 60 years of research and scholarship on Przeworsk Culture iron metallurgy, this is the first book to carry out smelting slag and ore analyses using the most up-to-date methods available in archaeological science. More specifically, this study also applies a variety of statistical methods to the results of the elemental analyses of nearly 270 smelting slag and ore samples from its territory. Offering an overview of statistical approaches used in iron provenance studies and a detailed step-by-step research methodology, this book paves the way for future studies, including artefact provenance analyses using the latest archaeometric methods.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Research reported in this book

was funded by the National Science Centre Poland. Open access was funded by Grzegorz Zabinski.

By: Grzegorz Zabinski (Jan Dlugosz University Poland), Marcin Wozniak (Museum of Ancient Masovian Metallurgy, Poland), Jaroslaw Gramacki (University of Zielona Góra, Poland), Artur Gramacki (University of Zielona Góra, Poland)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 609g
ISBN: 9781350535480
ISBN 10: 1350535486
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Grzegorz Zabinski is Associate Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Jan Dlugosz University, Poland. He is the author of Technology of Sword Blades from the La Tène Period to the Early Modern Age (2014). Marcin Wozniak is Head of Department of Archaeology of Mazovia at the Museum of Ancient Masovian Metallurgy, Poland. Jaroslaw Gramacki is Vice-Rector for Science and International Cooperation at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland. Artur Gramacki is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland.

Reviews for East Germanic Ironmaking in the Roman Period: Archaeometry of Slag and Ore Finds in the Przeworsk Culture

This book is not only an up-to-date overview of archaeological and chemical data about the most impressive iron production areas across Barbaricum, but also a handbook for any archaeometallurgist interested in the provenance of ferrous objects. -- Alexandre Disser, Researcher in Archaeology, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France