bronze age
Before golden years
A bronze age is any period when a civilization used bronze as its primary metal for tools and weapons, before developing iron technology.
Various regions entered bronze ages at different times, making the term useful for discussing technological stages without specific dates: The region's bronze age lasted several centuries. (Capitalized Bronze Age is the specific historical period.)
- tinElement fifty, Sn
- tin minesExcavations for metallic element
- copperReddish-brown metallic element
- copper oreMetal-bearing mineral deposit
- axesHeaded chopping tools
alloy · swords · smelting · smithing · metallurgy · chisels · forge · bronze sword · metalworking · lost wax · weapons · tools · ingots · pottery · chariots · ancient civilizations · stone · trade
- ancient historyancient history, ancient world, classical antiquity, ancient empires, Mesopotamia
- early historygenesis, origin, beginning, ancient times, prehistoric age
- ancient metalworkingsmelting, forging, smithing, casting molds, crucibles
- Southeast Asian ArchaeologyAngkor Wat, Angkor, temple ruins, burial sites, prehistoric sites
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- ancient timesancient, primeval, primitive, primordial, archaic
bronze ageneolithic
Final Stone Age period
information age · paleolithic · digital age · modern era · space age
bronze agegolden age
Period of peak prosperity
golden era · silver age · dark age · renaissance · heyday