Metallurgical Studies on Samples From Central Zagros, Northern Kuhdasht

Subject Areas : Archaeology

Soraya Elikay Dehno ¹ , Taymour Akbari ² , Morteza Gravand ³ , Faramarz Rostami Charati ⁴ , Fereshte Rahimi ⁵

1 - Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and tourism Organization(RICHT) , Tehran , Iran
2 - Department of Archaeology, Faculty member of Islamic Azad University, Varamin Pishva Branch, Varamin, Iran
3 - PhD student in Archeology, University of Tehran
4 - Associate Professor, Faculty Member, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
5 - Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and tourism Organization(RICHT) , Tehran , Iran

Received: 2022-06-13 Accepted : 2022-09-18 Published : 2022-08-30

Keywords: Iron, Kuhdasht, Petrography, Elemental Analysis, Slag, Archaeometallurgy,

Abstract :

During the surveys to 2014-2019, Northern Kuhdasht county was studied with the aim of identifying the potential of ancient metalwork and the existence of sites related to the metalworking activities. These Surveys have yielded eighty sites containing slag and or possible places related to industrial activities. In this research, the physical and chemical properties of slags recovered from ten places in four sites, namely Changari, Chalghesholeh, Sargiz, and Dalab, have been studied. The main purpose of this study has been to identify the type of smelting and melting techniques used in the past. For this aim, petrographic and elemental analyses have been done on the slag samples to investigate the mineralogical and chemical compositions.