Bronze Age

A period of prehistory characterized by the widespread use of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) for tools, weapons, and other artifacts, typically intermediate between the Neolithic (stone age) and Iron Age. It marks a technologically distinct era of human development in many regions.

Claims that use this term

• The Great Orme mine was the largest Bronze Age copper source in north-west Europe.
• Schliemann and Evans revealed a Bronze Age world unknown to classical historians
• Mastering iron-hardening techniques determined which Bronze Age communities survived