Iron Age
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Etymology
From iron + age, in the mythological sense a calque of Latin saecula ferrea, aetas ferrea; in the archaeological sense a calque of Danish jernalder.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- (mythology) The most recent and debased of the four or five classical Ages of Man; hence, any period characterized by wicked behavior. [from 16th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:
- He that shall examine this iron age wherein we live, where love is cold […] may well ask where is charity?
- An age characterized by the use of iron. [from 16th c.]
- (archaeology) A level of culture in which humans used iron and the technology of ironworking. (Estimated to have begun in Europe about 1100 BC) [from 19th c.]
Coordinate terms
- (archaeology): Stone Age, Bronze Age
- (mythology): Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Heroic Age
Translations
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See also
Iron Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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