Dates
An Iron Age thatched roof, Butser Farm, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Classically, the Iron Age is taken to begin in the 12th century BC in the ancient Near East, ancient India (with the post-Rigvedic Vedic civilization), and ancient Greece (with the Greek Dark Ages). In other regions of Europe, it started much later. The Iron Age began [...]
Origins
The place and time of the invention of bronze are controversial, and it is possible that bronzing was invented independently in multiple places. The earliest known tin bronzes are from what is now Iran and Iraq and date to the late 4th millennium BC, but there are claims of an earlier appearance of tin bronze [...]
The Chalcolithic (Greek khalkos + lithos ‘copper stone’) period or Copper Age period (also known as the Eneolithic (neolithic)), is a phase in the development of human culture in which the use of early metal tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools.
The literature of European archaeology generally avoids the use of ‘chalcolithic’ (they prefer [...]
The Stone Age is part of the history of the world that encompasses the first widespread use of technology in human evolution and the spread of humanity from the savannas of East Africa to the rest of the world. It ends with the development of agriculture, the domestication of certain animals and the smelting of [...]
