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The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC. It was characterized by the use of bronze, the use of writing in some areas, and other features of early urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of the three-age system, between the Stone and Iron Ages. [ 1 ]
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC. It was associated with environmental change, mass migrations, city destructions and trade route disruptions that limited bronze production. The collapse affected a large area of the Eastern Mediterranean (North Africa and Southeast Europe) and ...
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. [1] It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progressing to protohistory (before written history). In this usage, it is preceded by the Stone Age ...
Researchers used satellite images to help expose a societal landscape in Bronze Age Central Europe. The archaeological team discovered over 100 sites in a complex network, highlighting the largest ...
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200–800 BC) were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history: the Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) [1] and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age (c. 1050–800 BC), which included all the ceramic phases from the Protogeometric to the Middle Geometric I [1] and lasted until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age around 800 BC.
Jōmon pottery, Japanese Stone Age Trundholm sun chariot, Nordic Bronze Age Iron Age house keys Cave of Letters, Nahal Hever Canyon, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, [1] [2] although the concept may ...
Bronze Age Britain is an era of British history that spanned from c. 2500–2000 BC until c. 800 BC. [1] Lasting for approximately 1,700 years, it was preceded by the era of Neolithic Britain and was in turn followed by the period of Iron Age Britain. Being categorised as the Bronze Age, it was marked by the use of copper and then bronze by the ...
List of Bronze Age states. The Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) marks the emergence of the first complex state societies, and by the Middle Bronze Age (mid-3rd millennium BC) the first empires. This is a list of Bronze Age polities. By the end of the Bronze Age, complex state societies were mostly limited to the Fertile Crescent and to China ...