How to Use Bronze Age in a Sentence

Bronze Age

noun
  • Oetzi and these Bronze Age salt miners ate more fiber and whole grain than modern-day people, Sarhan explained.
    — CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • The seeds date back to the Early Bronze Age and were uncovered alongside the remains of an ancient kitchen area.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Most scholars consider crannogs to have been built, used, and reused from the Late Bronze Age to the medieval period.
    — Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This layer dates to about 4,500 years ago, Ersoy said, or to the Early Bronze Age.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
  • By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In the late Bronze Age, the Canaanites played an integral role in the movement of goods around the eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This suggests that Bronze Age individuals relinquished pieces of their wealth as a sacred offering.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The detritus of a Bronze Age ship can tell us about the people on board and the routes taken by these intrepid travelers over 3,000 years ago.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This rare indigenous breed is Ireland’s only native goat species and shares a genetic link to goats living across the country during the Late Bronze Age.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The mystery deepened as researchers noted the deceased had not been left to decay, a departure from the patterns seen in other Scottish Bronze Age barrows.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Archaeologists explained that the Late Bronze Age marked a transition as humans moved into the Iron Age.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026
  • The motifs indicate a Late Bronze Age date of 1300 to 1100 BCE.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Archaeologists in southern Germany have unearthed a rare, octagonal Bronze Age sword worthy of legend.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • But Hathaway—who recently announced her third pregnancy—is on the press circuit for her next film, The Odyssey, and she’s found a way to bring the boho to the late Bronze Age.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • Last year, Turkish officials announced the discovery of a 5,000-year-old bread loaf, baked during Turkey's Bronze Age.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • Bronze Age symbolizes a time of change Bronze, a raw material, was skillfully manipulated to create objects that not only carried weight but also meaning.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The finding sheds light on how the plague likely spread through close contact between people, livestock and wild animals as Bronze Age societies began keeping larger herds and traveling farther with horses.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The dice evidence is about 6,000 years older than the equivalent in Bronze Age societies in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Inside, six permanent galleries cover everything from Bronze Age settlements to the pearl trade (including the world’s oldest natural pearl) and the spread of Islam.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site in the Sinai desert where Semitic laborers once worked during the Middle Bronze Age.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • To find the ancient plague genome, the study authors investigated Bronze Age animal remains from an archaeological site in Russia known as Arkaim.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Near the town of Sanquhar, a southwestern Scottish community nestled in verdant countryside, researchers stumbled upon a Bronze Age barrow—the first find of its kind in the area.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Akrotiri, a Bronze Age settlement in southern Santorini, is built into the craggy cliffs and offers incredible views (plus, the famous red sand beach is here, just a 10-minute drive from this Airbnb).
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 14 May 2026
  • The site was first excavated about 25 years ago when archaeologists found human remains dating back to the Neolithic period and Middle Bronze Age.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
  • All the samples were cleaned and processed, and radiocarbon dates revealed that the collection of bones spanned from the Mesolithic, Early Neolithic, and Early Bronze Age.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early form of plague during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (LNBA).
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Her book begins with a consideration of birth practices among women from the Minoan civilization—Bronze Age inhabitants of the island of Crete, whose deities included a goddess of childbirth.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • What the evidence does prove is that betel nut chewing was practiced by at least some people in Bronze Age Thailand, adding to other, often more visible ancient evidence of the practice across Southeast Asia.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Excavations at Kolona, an archaeological site on the Greek island of Aegina, have uncovered a trove of gold jewelry dating to the Middle Bronze Age.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026

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