the Iron Age

noun

: a period of time between about 3000 B.C. and 1000 B.C. in which people used iron to make weapons and tools

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Origins and history The original druids were ritual specialists active among certain Celtic-speaking societies found during the Iron Age in Western Europe. Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 The Ceretani were an Indigenous community who farmed, herded, and mined within the Cerdanya region of Catalonia during the Iron Age. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 The Odyssey is a story set in the Bronze Age, written in the Iron Age, measured by which metal was the predominant metal that went into weapons of war and other kinds of tools. David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026 The area’s archaeological remains span the Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods. Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Iron Age

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