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It has long been recognized that the last millennium B.C. was a time of profound social change in central Europe (see Bintliff 1984a; Wells 1984 for recent discussions that include historical backgrounds). It was also the period of the gradual but steady spread of ironworking into central Europe and beyond into western and northern Europe, as well as of the gradual and steady improvement of ironworking technology. Scholars have long sought to link the social and technological developments.
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Geselowitz, M.N. (1988). Technology and Social Change: Ironworking in the Rise of Social Complexity in Iron Age Central Europe. In: Gibson, D.B., Geselowitz, M.N. (eds) Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0777-6_6
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