Whoever smelt, dealt it.
Seems like a long time for iron to supplant bronze, as I know nothing about it, but there was supposedly a civilizational collapse around 1200 BC brought on by interruption of tin trade routes. You tube genius here.
As a metal worker that actually makes sense. They might actually be on the right track with this one...
“One of the unusual things about sulfides is that when heated to high temperatures they will melt. The product of melted sulfides is called a matte, and is highly corrosive liquid. Converting that molten sulfide matte to metal is called smelting. Small scale smelting can be done in a crucible – in fact that is what a fire assay is. When smelting assays are done on high sulfide ores, a couple of iron nails are added to the mix. The metal in the nails reacts with the metals in the sulfides reducing the metals to their metallic state. This is handy when processing silver containing minerals to convert them to silver metal. The addition of scrap iron to smelt mixes is a useful technique to small-scale operators experimenting with smelting techniques on gold-silver ores. It could also be used with small lots of sulfide concentrates.”
https://www.nevada-outback-gems.com/Reference_pages/smelting_n_roast.htm
I find this interesting. I don’t really have any good comment to make because I did not know the tin and bronze age came before the iron age.
I’m learning :)
Iron laying all over the ground in parts of North America. Injuns must not have been interested.
(3,000-Year-Old Discovery Reveals Surprising Clues to What May Have Accidentally Sparked the Dawn of the Iron Age)
Some 1x4x9 Black Monolith Monkey 🐒🐒🐒 Business?
Wait, don’t go ape 🦧🦧🦧🦧...
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How ironic!
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