the Bronze Age

noun

: a period of time that began between 4000 and 3000 B.C. in which people used bronze to make weapons and tools

The artifact dates to the Bronze Age.

a Bronze Age weapon/tool

Examples of the Bronze Age in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ten thousand rocks, etched with nearly 90,000 carvings dating as far back as the Bronze Age, make Saimaluu Tash one of the largest and most remote high-altitude petroglyph sites in the world. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Of its two main cities, Heraklion puts you near Knossos, the Bronze Age Minoan palace, while Chania gives easier access to the western beaches and White Mountains. — Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026

Essential since the Bronze Age, copper has remained crucial to the global economy. — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

But plenty of war stories were lost to history during the illiterate centuries after the collapse of the Bronze Age. — Amy S. Badura-Brack, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

Rhymes for the Bronze Age

• alienage
• assuage
• backstage
• bocage
• downstage
• engage
• enrage
• leafage
• messuage
• offstage
• onstage
• outrage