1. Ironmaking at Hastinapur archaeological site from 8th century BCE to 16th century CE.
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Garnayak, Dibishada Brajasundar, Panda, Siva Sankar, Gantait, Mainak, Verma, Rajan Kumar, and Anand, Gautam
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SIXTEENTH century , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations , *IRON ores , *METALLURGICAL analysis , *CARBURIZATION , *IRON , *NIOBIUM , *SLAG - Abstract
Hastinapur is one of the prominent painted grey ware archaeological sites in the Ganga Valley. In the present communication, we report the results of the metallurgical analysis of the excavated slag samples from the site. The existence of a large number of iron objects for this site can be dated between c. 6th century BCE and c. 16th century CE, with early iron from the 8th century BCE. The morphological, microstructural and elemental studies of the excavated slag indicate a high amount of carbon in iron, indicating crucible carburization activities at this site. In addition, the presence of niobium, cobalt, etc. in the slag indicates the usage of non-traditional iron ores in the primary ironmaking stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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