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Thrymr
on March 18, 2024
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How to Escape from the Iron Age?
I don't know about Africa, but it is not exactly controversial that China and other places had high quality steel before Europe.
gunapologist99
on March 18, 2024
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Please provide citations and what is meant by "high quality", and if you are referring to at scale using blast furnaces vs small artisanal production.
BlueTemplar
on March 18, 2024
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AFAIK Serendib had "large" artisanal "blast" furnaces making "high tech" crucible steel maybe as far back as 300 BC :
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/06/science/ancient-smelter-u...
gunapologist99
on March 26, 2024
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Very cool, thanks for the link!!
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