Definitions for bronze age

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Bronze′ Age`(n.)

  1. a period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used: representative Old World cultures are the Minoan and Mycenaean.

    Category: Archaeology

Origin of Bronze Age:

1860–65

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Bronze Age(noun)

    (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons

  2. bronze age(noun)

    (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence

Wiktionary

  1. Bronze Age(ProperNoun)

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

  2. Bronze Age(ProperNoun)

    One of the Classical , associated with warfare.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Bronze Age

    the age in the history of a race intermediate between the Stone Age and the Iron, and in some cases overlapping these two, when weapons and tools were made of bronze.


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