Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...
Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron smelting site was something else.
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...
New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...
The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And according to new research, a copper smelting site used roughly 3,000 years ago ...