the Iron Age
noun
: a period of time between about 3000 B.C. and 1000 B.C. in which people used iron to make weapons and tools
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The researchers compared the pyrophyllite disks with other artifacts that have been identified as navigational instruments used by Vikings.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
Beginning in the fifth century B.C., the Gauls lived in France, and archaeologists discovered residential areas and a farm likely belonging to the group dating to the Iron Age.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
Genetic analysis explored another wave of migration toward the end of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, which ended about 800 A.D., coinciding with the rise of Vikings.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
Beginning in the fifth century B.C., the Gauls lived in France, and archaeologists discovered residential areas and a farm likely belonging to the group dating to the Iron Age.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
Genetic analysis explored another wave of migration toward the end of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, which ended about 800 A.D., coinciding with the rise of Vikings.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2025
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