Kemondo Iron Age Sites
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kemondo-iron-age-sites-206-9819074
title:
Kemondo Iron Age Sites
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Kemondo Iron Age Sites or KM2 and KM3 are Early Iron Age complex industrial archaeological sites in Kemondo ward, Bukoba Rural District, Kagera Region, Tanzania, excavated by a team led by archaeologist Peter Schmid in the late 1970s and 1980s. The excavations aimed at better understanding the iron smelting process and its ritual aspects in East Africa. At the KM2 and KM3 sites, Schmidt tested the hypothesis that the high combustion temperature of furnaces, discovered to be between 1,350–1,400 °
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National Historic Site of Tanzania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemondo_Iron_Age_Sites
date created:
2016-12-04T21:29:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:38:42Z
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