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Bronze Age: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

The document discusses the global spread and timeline of metallurgy during the Bronze Age. It began in the Near East around 3300-1200 BC, including areas like Anatolia, Caucasus, Egypt, Levant and Mesopotamia. Bronze Age cultures then spread across Asia, Europe, Africa and parts of the Americas between around 3000-600 BC. Key cultures mentioned include those in South Asia, East Asia like China, and across Europe like the Aegean, Hallstatt and Urnfield cultures. Bronze Age cultures varied in their early developments of writing, with Mesopotamia and Egypt creating some of the earliest viable writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs.

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Bronze Age: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

The document discusses the global spread and timeline of metallurgy during the Bronze Age. It began in the Near East around 3300-1200 BC, including areas like Anatolia, Caucasus, Egypt, Levant and Mesopotamia. Bronze Age cultures then spread across Asia, Europe, Africa and parts of the Americas between around 3000-600 BC. Key cultures mentioned include those in South Asia, East Asia like China, and across Europe like the Aegean, Hallstatt and Urnfield cultures. Bronze Age cultures varied in their early developments of writing, with Mesopotamia and Egypt creating some of the earliest viable writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs.

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Diffusion of metallurgy in Europe and Asia

Minor. The darkest areas are the oldest.


Bronze Age
Neolithic
Near East (c. 33001200 BC)
Anatolia, Caucasus, Elam, Egypt,
Levant, Mesopotamia, Sistan
Late Bronze Age collapse
South Asia (c. 30001200 BC)
Ochre Coloured Pottery
Cemetery H
Europe (c. 3200600 BC)
Aegean, Caucasus, Catacomb culture,
Srubna culture, Beaker culture, Unetice
culture, Tumulus culture, Urnfield
culture, Hallstatt culture, Apennine
culture
Atlantic Bronze Age, Bronze Age
Britain, Nordic Bronze Age
China (c. 3000700 BC)
Longshan, Lower Xiajiadian culture,
Upper Xiajiadian culture, Erlitou,
Erligang
arsenical bronze
Iron age
Bronze Age
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bronze Age is a time period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing,
and other early features of urban civilization.
The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age Stone-Bronze-Iron
system, as proposed in modern times by Christian Jrgensen Thomsen, for classifying
and studying ancient societies. An ancient civilization is defined to be in the Bronze
Age either by smelting its own copper and alloying with tin, or by trading for bronze
from production areas elsewhere. Copper-tin ores are rare, as reflected in the fact
that there were no tin bronzes in western Asia before the trading in bronze began in
the third millennium BC. Worldwide, the Bronze Age generally followed the Neolithic
period, but in some parts of the world, the Copper Age served as a transition from the
Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Although the Iron Age generally followed the Bronze
Age, in some areas, the Iron Age intruded directly on the Neolithic from outside the
region, with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa where it was developed
independently.
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Bronze Age cultures differed in their development of the first writing. According to
archaeological evidence, cultures in Mesopotamia (cuneiform) and Egypt (hieroglyphs)
developed the earliest viable writing systems.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Near East
1.1.1 Near East timeline
1.1.2 Age sub-divisions
1.1.3 Mesopotamia
1.1.4 Iranian Plateau
1.1.5 Anatolia
1.1.6 Levant
1.1.7 Ancient Egypt
1.2 Central Asia
1.2.1 Seima-Turbino Phenomenon
1.3 East Asia
1.3.1 East Asia timeline
1.3.2 China
1.3.3 Korea
1.4 South Asia
1.4.1 South Asia timeline
1.4.2 Indus Valley
1.5 Southeast Asia
1.6 Europe
1.6.1 European timeline

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