Black Hephaistos
| #70103 Black Hephaistos: Culture and Science in African Iron Working |
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48 min., 1995 $99.00 + $12.50 shipping in North America Canadian residents add GST see 'how to purchase' for further details |
| Video footage, filmed in 1989 and 1993 in the Mandara highlands of Cameroon and Nigeria records the process of smelting iron by Ajokfa, a Plata Kapa iron master,and fining and forging by Hundu, a Sukur smith. The scene moves to the Materials Science Laboratory of the University of Arizona where David Killick demonstrates the metallurgical analysis of these and other products. The programme is unique in offering its audience the chance to discover a traditional technology in its cultural context and to participate in the matallurgical detective work that reveals its sophisticated workings.
The film-makers are Dr. Nicolas David, leader of an ethnoarchaeological project since 1984 and Dr. David Killick. Dr. David has worked extensively in Nigeria and Cameroon including a posting as head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria from 1974-78. Since 1984, he has directed the Mandara Archaeological Project in Cameroon, Nigeria and now Ghana. Dr. David moved to Canada in 1980 and is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. David Killick, is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Materials Science at the University of Arizona. He is also one of the two or three foremost experts on the archaeometallurgy of African iron working. Dr. David has produced four videos on iron making, ceramics, and the cultures of the Mandara Mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria. The other three titles are:
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