TY - JOUR
T1 - Gone to smelt iron in Courland
T2 - technology transfer in the development of an early modern industry
AU - Jakovļeva, Mārīte
AU - Auziņa, Dita
AU - Brūzis, Rūdolfs
AU - Gundersen, Ingar MØrkestØl
AU - Rundberget, Bernt
AU - Bebre, Viktorija
AU - Doniņa, Inga
AU - KĻava, Valda
AU - Straube, Gvido
AU - Bērziņš, Valdis
AU - VĪksna, Arturs
AU - Actiņš, Andris
AU - Meija, Raimonds
AU - Popovs, Konrāds
AU - Upmalis, Raitis
AU - Parfentev, Anton
N1 - Funding Information:
Research and preparation of the article was undertaken within the frame of project NFI/R/2014/062, ‘Technology transfer in the processing of mineral resources in earlier times’, co-financed by the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009–14 Programme LV05 ‘Research and Scholarships’.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology 2019.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - SUMMARY: In the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, corresponding to the southern and western parts of present-day Latvia, an iron industry based on blast-furnace technology, mainly using local bog iron ore, existed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Transfer of knowledge and skill through the recruitment of specialists from other countries of Europe was crucial to the development of this industry; technology was also re-exported to Russia and elsewhere. Recent archaeological and archaeometallurgical investigations supplement the written evidence, highlighting the specific local conditions that influenced the development of ferrous metalworking here in the early modern period.
AB - SUMMARY: In the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, corresponding to the southern and western parts of present-day Latvia, an iron industry based on blast-furnace technology, mainly using local bog iron ore, existed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Transfer of knowledge and skill through the recruitment of specialists from other countries of Europe was crucial to the development of this industry; technology was also re-exported to Russia and elsewhere. Recent archaeological and archaeometallurgical investigations supplement the written evidence, highlighting the specific local conditions that influenced the development of ferrous metalworking here in the early modern period.
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U2 - 10.1080/00794236.2019.1601398
DO - 10.1080/00794236.2019.1601398
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068111092
SN - 0079-4236
VL - 53
SP - 102
EP - 124
JO - Post-Medieval Archaeology
JF - Post-Medieval Archaeology
IS - 1
ER -