the Bronze Agenoun [ S ]
uk/ˈbrɒnz ˌeɪdʒ/us/ˈbrɑːnz ˌeɪdʒ/the time in the past when tools and weapons were made of bronze, before iron was discovered
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the Iron Age
the Stone Age
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Ancient history: before 500 AD
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Examples from literature
- Barrows and sepulchral mounds strictly of the Bronze Age are smaller and less imposing than those of the Stone Age.
- The implements of the Bronze Age include swords, awls, knives, gouges, hammers, daggers and arrow-heads.
- Then followed what is known as the Bronze Age, and we find that the people of this era also worked with clay.
- Well, it seems probable that between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age there intervened everywhere, or nearly everywhere, a very short and transient age of copper.
- With the round barrows, which belong to the Bronze Age, and contain the remains of a later and more civilised Celtic population, we get far more advanced forms of pottery.