Bronze Age

(proper noun)

A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and allows it to cast bronze.

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Examples of Bronze Age in the following topics:

  • Bronze Age Advancements in Mettallurgy

  • Art of the Bronze Age

    • The Bronze Age saw the birth of civilization and the development of advanced cultures in Europe, the Near East, and East Asia.
    • The Bronze Age is part of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
    • The Bronze Age took place circa 3,300-1,200 B.C. and is characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacturing of implements and weapons.
    • Bronze Age cultures differed in their development of the first writing.
    • In Ancient Egypt, the Bronze Age begins in the Protodynastic period, circa 3,150 BC .

  • The Norse

    • "Norse art" defines the artistic legacies of Scandinavia during the Germanic Iron Age, the Viking Age, and the Nordic Bronze Age.
    • "Norse art" is a blanket term for the artistic styles in Scandinavia during the Germanic Iron Age, the Viking Age, and the Nordic Bronze Age.
    • This could involve various types of design such as bulls, dolphins, gold lions, drakes spewing fire out of their nose, human beings cast in gold and silver, and other unidentifiable animals cast in bronze metal.

  • Bronze Age Rock Carvings

  • Sculpture of the Cyclades

    • Cycladic art during the Greek Bronze Age is noted for its abstract, geometric designs of male and female figures.
    • The islands were known for their white marble mined during the Greek Bronze Age and throughout Classical history.
    • Indigenous civilization on the Cyclades reached its high point during the Bronze Age.

  • The Hittites

    • After c. 1180 BCE, the empire came to an end in the Bronze Age collapse, splintering into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some surviving until the eighth century BCE.
    • Although they belonged to the Bronze Age, the Hittites were the forerunners of the Iron Age.
    • The Bronze Age Hittite and Luwian dialects evolved into the sparsely attested Lydian, Lycian and Carian languages.
    • Bronze religious standard symbolizing the universe, used by Hittite priests, from the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.

  • Introduction to Ancient Greece

    • Following a Greek Dark Age, Greece once more flourished and developed into the ancient culture that we recognize today .
    • During the Bronze Age, several distinct cultures developed around the Aegean.
    • Many explanations attribute the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and the Bronze Age collapse to climatic or environmental catastrophe, combined with an invasion by Dorians or by the Sea Peoples, or to the widespread availability of edged weapons of iron, but no single explanation fits the available archaeological evidence.
    • This two- to three-century span of history is also known as the Homeric Age.
    • Illustrate a timeline of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period.

  • The Stone Age

    • Stone Age art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture.
    • The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
    • The art of the Stone Age represents the first accomplishments in human creativity, preceding the invention of writing.
    • The advent of metalworking in the Bronze Age brought additional media available for use in making art, an increase in stylistic diversity, and the creation of objects that did not have any obvious function other than art.
    • By the Iron Age, civilizations with writing had arisen from Ancient Egypt to Ancient China.

  • Ceramics and Bronze in the Yayoi Period

    • Artifacts brought to the Japanese islands by the Yayoi people bore Chinese and Korean influences and ushered Japan into the Iron Age.
    • The Yayoi period is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BCE to 300 CE.
    • Techniques in metallurgy based on the use of bronze and iron were also introduced to Japan in this period.
    • Three major symbols of Yayoi culture include the bronze mirror, the bronze sword, and the royal seal stone.
    • Yayoi craft specialists also made bronze ceremonial bells, known as dōtaku.

  • Carolingian Metalwork in the Early European Middle Ages

    • Under Charlemagne, there was a revival of large-scale bronze casting in imitation of Roman designs, although metalwork in gold continued to develop.