the Iron Age
noun [S]Definition
› the period in early history starting about 1100 BC when iron was used for tools: an Iron Age settlement → Compare the Bronze Age, the Stone AgeAncient history: before 500 AD
(Definition of the Iron Age noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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