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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The dates are one thing, the technology is another, IOW, stone (which is after all still in use) was supplanted by copper, on into bronze, and thereafter into iron, at different times in different places. For example, the bronze age in the Americas came along quite a long while after it was over elsewhere in the world.


7 posted on 09/13/2022 9:37:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
If he had said before metals were in common use in that area, it would be fine and probably accurate.

But the "before we discovered iron we had only stone and bone tools" is really off the mark.

Copper was around and certainly being used at that time and not THAT far away.

Which is why I am hoping there was a translation error.

A few years back there was one where they used the word potato when what the person originally said was millet.

9 posted on 09/13/2022 9:46:49 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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