Right now i only found some mentions of hittite iron, products, and biblical mentions of the iron using hittites. So no real archaeological evidence for now.
Everything could help like evidence for products, ovens, productionplaces and traces of ressource exploitation.
You may find some useful references in Chapter 5 of The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe CA. 1200 B.C., by Robert Drews, pp. 73 - 76.
While Drews holds that iron did not come into regular use until after the collapse of the Hittite civilisation, some of the works cited in his footnotes might be helpful to you, such as Jane C. Waldbaum: From Bronze to Iron. The Transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Eastern Mediterranean; Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, LIV. 1978.
There may also be something of value in the following link:
http://www.claytoncramer.com/unpublished/Iron2.pdf
But I have not read the article, and don't know the author's credentials.
Good luck
Thank you very much. I will look up these references as soon as possible.
Your welcome, Eik.
You may also find it helpful to check the works of Prof. Trevor Bryce, one of my lecturers when I was doing my degree.
http://hapi.uq.edu.au/professor-trevor-bryce
Trevor seems to be now held as one of the leading experts on the Hittites, at least among English speaking scholars.
I'd suggest concentrating on his later works, because I know his views have changed over time. On some key points they are very different from where they were when I was a student 30+ years ago, particularly with regard to Troy and the identity of the Ahhiyawans.
I still see Trevor occasionally at the University of Queensland, but I'm not in a position to put you in touch with him. His most recent work is a book on the history of Ancient Syria.
See the contributions of Radomir Pleiner, for example Pleiner, R. 2000, Iron in Archaeology. The European Bloomery Smelters, Praga. There you can find an historic of iron metallurgy and a detailed literature on the subject!
Hauptmann, A., E. Pernicka, Th. Rehren, and Ü. Yalçın, eds., The Beginnings of Metallurgy, Der Anschnitt, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum No. 84; Beiheft 9, Deutsches Bergbau Museum, Bochum, 1999. And see Beiheft 13 as well.
Boehmer, Rainer Michael, Die Kleinfunde von Boğazköy, Boğazköy - Hattuša: VII, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1972.
Boehmer, Rainer Michael, Die Kleinfunde aus der Unterstadt von Boğazköy: Grabungs-kampagnen 1970-1978, Boğazköy - Hattuša: X, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1979.
and see his references.
Regarding the Hittite metallurgy itself and not the finds your author ist Andreas Müller-Karpe. If your monitor does not support diacritics the surname is spelled Mueller-Karpe.
Early iron metallurgy in Anatolia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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