Traditional Metalworking in Kenya (Oxbow Monographs)

This is a comprehensive study of metalworking in Kenya of the recent past, based on over 10 years of extensive research. The author writes with the explicit aim of helping archaeologists to understand ancient iron-working through ethnographic analogy focusing on material remains of observed processes. She studies the Smith's workshop and tolls, manufacturing techniques, and the products produced. She also considers the association of African iron-working with the Bantu spread.