On the question of the development of an iron industry in the middle reaches of the Yenisei river (technological aspect)

On the basis of archaeometallographic data, the conclusion has been reachedthat in the history of iron industry in the Minusinsk depression two innovations wereof key importance. The first (5th-3rd centuries BC) was the appearance of iron artefactsimported by a newly arrived population. This, however, had not provided an impetus forthe emergence of independent local iron-working. The second factor (2nd century BC - 1stcentury AD) marks the beginning of local iron production under the influence of craftsmenarriving from outside, who introduced their experience of the production and processingof ferrous metal