[blam]

"which would have made the site the earliest ever bronze age culture of the world."

There you go, I guess it was bronze. However, the article I read dealt with a smeltering/kiln site discovery.

[Fedora]

There you go, I guess it was bronze. However, the article I read dealt with a smeltering/kiln site discovery.

Maybe the article was talking about what's discussed here?

Dr. William Vernon, "The Crucibles of Ban Chiang"