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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At some point along this path, at around the time of the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, some bright spark came upon the idea of fermenting alcohol.
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Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Until that point, these communities continued to practice rituals similar to those of the Iron Age.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Last year, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Prehistoric Population and Cultural Dynamics in Highland Pang Mapha Project in Bangkok undertook extensive genetic testing on samples from what is now known as the Iron Age Log Coffin culture.
—New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
Both of them were bacteria: one that caused paratyphoid fever and the other relapsing fever, a pathogen transmitted by body lice that dated back to the Iron Age.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Until that point, these communities continued to practice rituals similar to those of the Iron Age.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Last year, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Prehistoric Population and Cultural Dynamics in Highland Pang Mapha Project in Bangkok undertook extensive genetic testing on samples from what is now known as the Iron Age Log Coffin culture.
—New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
Both of them were bacteria: one that caused paratyphoid fever and the other relapsing fever, a pathogen transmitted by body lice that dated back to the Iron Age.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the Iron Age
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