Iron Age
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- noun
- /ˈaɪərn eɪdʒ/
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Edad del Hierro
- PHOTO (COLOR): Miniature shields were among the 535 bronze objects in the Iron Age Salisbury Hoard, excavated illegally from a farmer's field in 1985.
- Iron Age and Bronze Age
- excavate an Iron Age
And that means that every single iron object from the Iron Age has to be forged.
- And that means that every single iron object from the Iron Age has to be forged.
- The result was a broader period of changes that led to the world of the Iron Age.
- Then the Iron Age started and the Iron Age started earlier in subcontinental India than it did in Europe.
- I think we need to help people who haven't seen a lot of Iron Age Shields or haven't spent the hours we've spent looking at it to understand what we found.
Examples
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You've probably heard of the Stone Age and the Iron Age, but what age are we living in now?
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In late Iron Age Ireland, the word for "king" actually meant something closer to "chieftain."
Academic text (2011) -
Believe it or not, remains of those huts from the Iron Age are still there.
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It has everything to do with Iron Age Britain.
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Major differences in social status emerged in southern India during the Iron Age, and Hire Benakal might demonstrate how it happened.
Academic text (2010) -
Here were the remnants of an old Iron Age hillfort.
Blog text (15) -
Although there is much evidence of metallurgy throughout early Iron Age Israel, archaeologists never find workshops.
Academic text (2011) -
In the Iron Age (1200-600 BCE), the Edomites lived in the hills around Petra.
Academic text (2008) -
In South Africa, the earliest known glass beadwork per se has been recorded from an Iron Age excavation in the northern Transvaal dated 1150 A.D.
Academic text (1999) -
The tools used for farming in the Iron Age showed advancements from previous eras.
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines literal constituents 'iron' + 'age', so a B1 learner can readily infer it denotes a period characterized by iron (e.g., an era defined by the metal), making part of the meaning transparent. However, the specific classical-mythological sense as the final, most corrupt age marked by moral decline and suffering is a culturally specific, metaphorical extension that cannot be fully predicted from the parts, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Iron Age gets its name from the time when people began to make most tools and weapons from iron instead of softer metals like bronze. That's why the name means the time in history marked by the wide use of iron.