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To: SunkenCiv

I would think that the end of the Bronze age would be characterized by the first Iron mine and smithy.


4 posted on 10/17/2014 3:44:11 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol

The division into stone-copper-bronze-iron is a just-so story from before scientific dating, and doesn’t have much bearing, not least because the availability of bronze came and went (probably for economic reasons or the access to raw materials or both), so the bronze age in parts of the world was still going on when Columbus liberated the New World.


8 posted on 10/17/2014 3:47:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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