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The most important achievement of the later ‘dark ages’ was the shift from bronze to iron. Between 1050 and 800 BCE iron technology was disseminated in Greece and the Aegean. This period marks the transition to the Iron Age. The origins of iron technology are shrouded in mystery. However the archaeological evidence which has accumulated over the years indicates that Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia pioneered the use of this metal. The technology involved in making iron objects is much more complex than that of copper or bronze. It took some time to acquire proficiency in iron making. In West Asia and the eastern Mediterranean the introduction of iron was spread over many centuries, from the fifteenth to the eighth centuries BCE. It is not possible to pinpoint one particular place where the technology was ‘invented’. Scholars no longer hold the view that the Hittites had a monopoly of this technology or that migrations by tribal groups carried knowledge of iron working to new areas. Although there is still a lot of difference of opinion among historians over the question of whether copper and bronze technology could have directly led to iron making, it cannot be denied that copper and bronze metallurgy led to advances in pyrotechnology. Different cultures made the transition to iron by traversing their own specific technological paths. This video is dealing with all these things.
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Reference:
Farooqui Amar (2002), Early Social Formations, Delhi: Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd.
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