A groundbreaking study from Georgia’s Kvemo Bolnisi site reveals that Bronze Age metallurgists were experimenting with iron oxides long before iron smelting became a dominant technology. Archaeologists have long debated how and where humanity first mastered the technology of producing iron, the metal that would come to define entire civilizations. A new scientific study, published in the Journal of Archaeological …
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