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The characteristic of an Iron Age culture is the mass production of tools and weapons made not just of found iron, but from smelted steel alloys with an added carbon content. [ citation needed ] Only with the capability of the production of carbon steel does ferrous metallurgy result in tools or weapons that are harder and lighter than bronze .
Swords made of iron (as opposed to bronze) appear from the Early Iron Age (c. 12th century BC), [citation needed] but do not become widespread before the 8th century BC. Early Iron Age swords were significantly different from later steel swords. They were work-hardened, rather than quench-hardened, which made them about the same or only ...
The weapons likely belonged to a powerful chieftain thousands of years ago. Archaeologists in Denmark discover over 100 weapons from the Iron Age during excavations Skip to main content
The Iron Age is conventionally defined by the widespread replacement of bronze weapons and tools with those of iron and steel. [14] That transition happened at different times in different places, as the technology spread. Mesopotamia was fully into the Iron Age by 900 BC.
At least 400 Iron Age torcs have been recovered from Snettisham, compared to 85 Iron Age torcs from the rest of Britain, including Norfolk, said Dr Julia Farley [The Trustees of the British Museum]
The transition from bronze to iron in Central Europe is exemplified in the great cemetery of Hallstatt, discovered near Gmunden in 1846, where the forms of the implements and weapons of the later part of the Bronze Age are imitated in iron. In the Swiss or La Tène group of implements and weapons, the forms are new and the transition complete.
The oldest known iron objects used by humans are some beads of meteoric iron, made in Egypt in about 4000 BC. The discovery of smelting around 3000 BC led to the start of the Iron Age around 1200 BC [ 16 ] and the prominent use of iron for tools and weapons. [ 17 ]
An axehead made of iron, dating from Swedish Iron Age. The Iron Age involved the adoption of iron or steel smelting technology, either by casting or forging. Iron replaced bronze, [41] [42] and made it possible to produce tools which were stronger, lighter and cheaper to make than bronze equivalents. [43] The best tools and weapons were made ...