How to Use the Bronze Age in a Sentence
the Bronze Age
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Plucking implements were pretty much stuck in the Bronze Age.
— Abbie Kozolchyk, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023 -
Of course, this mentality has been around a long time (as the invocation of the Bronze Age suggests).
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2023 -
More than 5,000 years ago, people at the beginning of the Bronze Age began building tombs made from muddy bricks.
— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024 -
As the Stone Age collapsed into the Bronze Age, the moon would become useful for much more than anticipating the seasons.
— Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2024 -
Egypt was in the midst of the Bronze Age, and Ramesses would be responsible for putting up temples and other symbols of his glory throughout the empire.
— Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023 -
A long time ago The tomb of two brothers who lived during the Bronze Age more than 3,000 years ago may help shed light on some of history’s medical mysteries.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023 -
The team suggests the Bronze Age Sintashta culture achieved this feat and quickly used the animals to move and expand throughout Eurasia.
— Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024 -
The torc, along with another gold bracelet also from the Bronze Age, were taken, museum officials said.
— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024 -
That phenomenon makes the AI age fundamentally different from the Bronze Age or the steel age.
— Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023 -
But during the Bronze Age, European shamans would have had to use the plants available to them, the study suggests, including such nightshades as mandrake, henbane, thorn apple and joint pine.
— Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023 -
Last year, another team of researchers suggested the Bronze Age Yamnaya people were riding horses in the Eurasian steppe roughly 5,000 years ago.
— Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024 -
Now, a high-tech protein analysis of cauldrons used by nomadic people in present day Mongolia during the Bronze Age indicates that the cookware was used to make sausages and ferment milk.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 June 2024 -
Sugar-munching, acid producing bacteria Both of the teeth belonged to the same male individual who lived in present day Ireland during the Bronze Age.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024 -
In their new paper, the researchers reported evidence for human occupation of the lava tube between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age—in other words, humans made use of the tube for millennia.
— Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024 -
In a departure from the loose artistic visualizations seen during the Bronze Age, the Chinese dragon has evolved into a concrete symbol of prosperity and power.
— Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024 -
One of the more recent archaeological discoveries about drug use in the Bronze Age, roughly 3,000 years ago, was found during excavations at a funeral site on the island of Minorca, off the coast of Spain.
— Gary Laderman, Fortune Well, 17 July 2023 -
When his sibling succumbed after his unsuccessful surgery, at age 21 or older, the previously deceased brother was exhumed so the two could be buried together—a common practice in the area during the Bronze Age.
— Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023 -
During the Bronze Age, many fundamental building blocks of society arose, such as writing systems, centralized governments, and medicine.
— Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2024 -
Other recently found artifacts from the Bronze Age included a unique metal arrowhead, the university said.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
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