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 ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, ...

Video about the history of metallurgy produced by the Museo del Oro and Macarena Films (Bogotá) and introducing the Museum's permanent exhibition in Bogotá, inaugurated in November 2008.

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 ...

CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in the ...

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 ...