The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final Age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and … 展开

Meteoric iron, a natural iron–nickel alloy, was used by various ancient peoples thousands of years before the Iron Age. The earliest-known meteoric iron artifacts are nine small beads dated to 3200 BC, which were found in burials at Gerzeh in Lower Egypt, … 展开

• Bakker, Jan David; Maurer, Stephan; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Rauch, Ferdinand (16 August 2021). "Of Mice and Merchants: … 展开

General
• A site with a focus on Iron Age Britain Archived 18 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine from resourcesforhistory.com
• Human Timeline (Interactive)—Smithsonian, 展开

The three-age method of Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages was first used for the archaeology of Europe during the first half of the 19th century, and by the latter half of the 19th century, it had … 展开

Earliest evidence
The earliest tentative evidence for iron-making is a small number of iron fragments with the appropriate amounts of carbon admixture found in … 展开

• Blast furnace
• Fogou
• Jublains archeological site, example in northwest France
• List of Iron Age states
• List of archaeological periods 展开