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 Ceretani were an Indigenous community who farmed, herded, and mined within the Cerdanya region of Catalonia during the Iron Age. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 The Odyssey is a story set in the Bronze Age, written in the Iron Age, measured by which metal was the predominant metal that went into weapons of war and other kinds of tools. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026 The area’s archaeological remains span the Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods. — Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 Court said the excavations uncovered evidence spanning hundreds of years of history, with finds dating from the Iron Age through the Roman period. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Iron Age

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