[SunkenCiv]

Times of India

[Red Badger]

Tin Pan Alley?...................

[Jim Robinson]

In Irony?

[bimboeruption]

Pittsburgh

[ckilmer]

an iron age working culture that predates the copper and bronze age of all the other places on earth? and in a region that traditionally received people and technology and farming from the north and specifically the indus river valley?

there will have to be a lot more discoveries like this and by a few non Indian teams for this story to gain currency.

One thing that can be said about this story is that it fits in nicely with the current hindu nationalist orthodoxy.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

I always just HATED it when I found iron armor or a steel sword, only to be attacked by the Rust Monster (indicated by the letter “R”) a few dungeons later, while playing the early 80s text-only UNIX game of Rogue.

[M Kehoe]

“Where Did the Iron Age Begin?”

Michigan.

That’s my answer and I’m stickin to it.

5.56mm

[Cold Heart]

Damascus steel originated in India

[Ancesthntr]

Where did the Iron Age begin?

I’d lay odds on “in some iron mine.”

[sasquatch]

Ask Mitch. He’ll know.

[montag813]

Perhaps someday the iron age will come to Africa

[bunkerhill7]

Who gives a Tinker’s Dam?

[cqnc]

Right after the Laundry Age?

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually the earlier view that the Hittite Empire had iron technology appears to have been disproven. Iron-working began after the fall of the Hittite Empire.