Recently, a paper titled Reconstructing a metallurgical chaîne opératoire: a case study of the dapo iron metallurgical site in Guangxi, China was published online in the leading international academic journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (JCR Q1, SSCI Q1). The paper was a collaboration between the Institute for History and Culture of Science and Technology (IHCST) at Guangxi Minzu University and the Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeology (GICRPA). Zou Guisen, Associate Professor at IHCST, is the first author and corresponding author, and Meng Changwang, Research Curator at GICRPA, is the co-corresponding author.

Distribution of metallurgical furnace remains and schematic of the metallurgical chaîne opératoire at the Houbeishan site