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The '''Bronze Age''' is the term for that period when a [[culture]] or [[civilization]] made use of the alloy [[bronze]] as its primary medium for tools, utensils and weapons. Bronze was first used in and around [[Mesopotamia]] (modern day [[Iraq]]) around the beginning of the fourth millennium BC - shortly after [[Creation]] - but did not widely displace stone until centuries later – coinciding loosely with the start of recorded history - and spread thereafter at varying rates through [[Eurasia]] and [[Africa]]. Bronze workings dating from about 3000BC have been found in [[Thailand]], but the widespread use of the metal throughout the [[Far East]] was not until much later.  

The '''Bronze Age''' is the term for that period when a [[culture]] or [[civilization]] made use of the alloy [[bronze]] as its primary medium for tools, utensils and weapons. Bronze was first used in and around [[Mesopotamia]] (modern day [[Iraq]]) around the beginning of the fourth millennium BC but did not widely displace stone until centuries later – coinciding loosely with the start of recorded history - and spread thereafter at varying rates through [[Eurasia]] and [[Africa]]. Bronze workings dating from about 3000BC have been found in [[Thailand]], but the widespread use of the metal throughout the [[Far East]] was not until much later.  

By the same token, the appearance of the first smelted [[iron]] in northern Anatolia ([[Turkey]]) coinciding with the arrival of the [[Hittites]], did not spell the end of the Bronze Age in the [[Middle East]], as bronze was the predominant metal for up to another thousand years.

By the same token, the appearance of the first smelted [[iron]] in northern Anatolia ([[Turkey]]) coinciding with the arrival of the [[Hittites]], did not spell the end of the Bronze Age in the [[Middle East]], as bronze was the predominant metal for up to another thousand years.