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bronze age n (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Classical myth a period of man's existence marked by war and violence, following the golden and silver ages and preceding the iron age Bronze Age n (Social Science / Archaeology) Archaeol a. a technological stage between the Stone and Iron Ages, beginning in the Middle East about 4500 bc and lasting in Britain from about 2000 to 500 bc, during which weapons and tools were made of bronze and there was intensive trading b. (as modifier) a Bronze-Age tool
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The first use of copper is dated to around 4000 BC; the Bronze Age came a few centuries later when it was discovered that adding tin or tin ore produced a metal of better quality that was easier to cast. By his own account, too, he pinpointed the location of the fabled Troy from his reading of the Iliad, dug down through the layers to the Bronze Age city, and discovered "Priam's treasure. Trapped in the Aegean Bronze Age, Jason discovers more than he planned on knowing about the origins of his own Greek ancestors. |
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