Comité pour la Sidérurgie Ancienne (CPSA) de l’Union Internationale

de Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP)

Welcome to the new CPSA site. It is intended to give information about meetings, conferences and publications concerned with pre-  or early industrial iron working and ferrous artefacts, as well as news of excavations and research projects.

Please send any material you would like to be included to the editor at cpsahephaestus@gmail.com

Please note change of email address

The editor reserves the right of selection .

Slag pit iron smelting pit furnace, Ngoma, Rwanda

Sectioned crucible with ingot of crucible steel, from Gattihosalli, India

Wrought iron cannon, 15th century, Bidar, Karnataka

Photographs courtesy Paul Craddock