FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGY AND

PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

OD ANTIKY K MODERNĚ MATERIÁLY, TECHNOLOGIE A UCHOVÁVÁNÍ

KULTURNÍHO DĚDICTVÍ

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU Sofia, 28.06 – 02.07.2019

National Institute of Archaeology with Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

SUPŠS VM

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

TECHNOLOGIES OF CRAFT PRODUCTION

National Institute of Archaeology with Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Anastasia Cholakova

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

TECHNOLOGY, -IES the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry (from Google Translate)

TECHNIQUE a practical method, skill, or art applied to a particular task (from Collins English Dictionary )

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

TECHNOLOGIES OF CRAFT PRODUCTION

PRIMARY EXTRACTIVE production/crafts/industries/ technologies

SECONDARY MANUFACTURING production/crafts/industries/ technologies

EXAMPLES: glass metals

production distribution & trade

consumption services

transport administration

taxation employment & ownership

etc.

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

CRAFT PRODUCTION: chaîne opératoire, processes and material evidence

raw materials

tools & facilities

preparation

making

semi-finished product

by-products, waste products, rejects

finished product

usage and discard

recycling scrap

disposal waste deposit

IRON WORKING DURING THE EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD AT ‘SHISHMANOVO KALE’ SITE NEAR SAMOKOV

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

Shishmanovo kale site near Samokov, W Bulgaria

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

Iron metallurgy in antiquity in the Samokov region

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

Lump of unworked iron (bloom) – Shishmanovo kale 2006

24.200 kg

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

Lump of semi-worked iron (bloom) with traces of cutting – Shishmanovo kale 2004

12.330 kg

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

Iron ingot – Popovyane site (cross-section and microstructure)

1.930 kg

0.665 kg

Iron ingot (a reject?) – Shishmanovo kale 2004

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

Blacksmith tongs – Shishmanovo kale 2006

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

Processing of iron ore

Metallurgical furnace – Popovyane site

Metallurgical furnace – cross-section reconstruction

Iron blooms – Sarmizegetusa (Romania)

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

A set of blacksmith tools for processing bloom iron – Smolyanovtsi (NW Bulgaria)

2018-1-CZ01-KA202-04805, co-funded by the Erasmus+/KA2 Programme of EU, Sofia, 30.06.2019

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