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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The shaft at the top of the Iron Age deposits, where the individual with Turner syndrome was found.
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Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
Another gravesite, located about 1,300 feet away, was filled with the remains of six cremations dating to the Iron Age.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
Another represents a man who lived during the Iron Age some 1,500 years ago and performed hard agricultural labor.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
By the Iron Age, most of the hazelnuts appear to have been gathered in an open area and not a woodland like the ones that existed as the glaciers retreated.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
The fort dates to the Hallstatt period of the Iron Age — which spanned from about 1200 B.C. until 450 B.C.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
The second structure dates to the Iron Age, around the first millenium B.C., experts said.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
Experts said the site was found in Beaugency, an area previously unknown to have been inhabited during the Iron Age.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
Another gravesite, located about 1,300 feet away, was filled with the remains of six cremations dating to the Iron Age.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
Another represents a man who lived during the Iron Age some 1,500 years ago and performed hard agricultural labor.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
By the Iron Age, most of the hazelnuts appear to have been gathered in an open area and not a woodland like the ones that existed as the glaciers retreated.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
The fort dates to the Hallstatt period of the Iron Age — which spanned from about 1200 B.C. until 450 B.C.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
The second structure dates to the Iron Age, around the first millenium B.C., experts said.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
Experts said the site was found in Beaugency, an area previously unknown to have been inhabited during the Iron Age.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
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