Bronze Age
noun
: the period of ancient human culture characterized by the use of bronze that began between 4000 and 3000 b.c. and ended with the advent of the Iron Age
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Most scholars consider crannogs to have been built, used, and reused from the Late Bronze Age to the medieval period.
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Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
See it The Early Bronze Age cemetery, unrelated to the settlement, is believed to be linked to the Únetice culture, which developed south of Poland, and migrated north to the fertile lands of Poland’s Lower Silesia, experts said.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
What the evidence does prove is that betel nut chewing was practiced by at least some people in Bronze Age Thailand, adding to other, often more visible ancient evidence of the practice across Southeast Asia.
—Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025
The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site in the Sinai desert where Semitic laborers once worked during the Middle Bronze Age.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Now, an international team of researchers has recovered the first ancient Yersinia pestis genome from a nonhuman host — a Bronze Age domesticated sheep that lived around 4,000 years ago in what is nowmodern-day Russia.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early form of plague during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (LNBA).
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Sample vessels from the cargo were positively identified as coming from the Late Bronze Age Canaanite period, according to the IAA.
—Jns Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2024
The tomb was found in an area adjacent to a late Bronze Age palace in Tel Megiddo, leading researchers to believe the two men were either high-ranking elite members of society or perhaps even royals.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
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Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
See it The Early Bronze Age cemetery, unrelated to the settlement, is believed to be linked to the Únetice culture, which developed south of Poland, and migrated north to the fertile lands of Poland’s Lower Silesia, experts said.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
What the evidence does prove is that betel nut chewing was practiced by at least some people in Bronze Age Thailand, adding to other, often more visible ancient evidence of the practice across Southeast Asia.
—Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025
The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site in the Sinai desert where Semitic laborers once worked during the Middle Bronze Age.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Now, an international team of researchers has recovered the first ancient Yersinia pestis genome from a nonhuman host — a Bronze Age domesticated sheep that lived around 4,000 years ago in what is nowmodern-day Russia.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early form of plague during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (LNBA).
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Sample vessels from the cargo were positively identified as coming from the Late Bronze Age Canaanite period, according to the IAA.
—Jns Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2024
The tomb was found in an area adjacent to a late Bronze Age palace in Tel Megiddo, leading researchers to believe the two men were either high-ranking elite members of society or perhaps even royals.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
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