The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research ...

Metals and ores in the neolithic period -- The technique and development of early copper smelting -- The early bronze age -- The full bronze age -- The early iron age -- The Roman iron age -- The ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

Was the Iberian Peninsula’s Bronze Age more advanced technologically than history has given it credit for? New study of the Treasure of Villena 66 pieces of gold, silver, and iron artifacts discovered ...

The first edition of this standard introduction was published in 1976, and reprinted in 1979; this new volume is a second edition, completed before the author's death in 1991. The main changes are in ...