CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture 2: The Bronze Age
3 Oct 2016
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The bronze age: ba = period followings development and use of bronze, the primary metal use, development of bronze was a major technological advancement, a way of conceptually idenmfying broad cultural developments . Missed rest of slide: bronze age is followed by the iron age. Iron age is last prehistoric period (beginning c. 1100 bc, lasmng unml c. Iron was easier to produce than bronze: prehistory = before widespread development of wrimng, dates of the bronze age, dates for the development of bronze vary across the. Therefore, there is a degree of regional variamon in damng the bronze age in the di erent cultures that ourished throughout the mediterranean: bronze age: 3300-1200 bce, archeologists have periodized this long chunk of mme, i. e. subdivided it. Early, middle & late bronze ages (eb, mb, lb). Early bronze age i, ii, iii: middle bronze age i, iia, iib, iic.
