Just last month, they unearthed a clay furnace—only the second of its kind discovered in the United Kingdom—which a Bronze Age metalworker may have used to forge weapons, jewelry and tools.

These new findings of the Bronze Age remains and artifacts can offer researchers more insight into the era when humans first explored the use of metal for tools, weapons, jewelry and ceremonial ...

The find is considered one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools found in the UK, with preliminary analysis confirming its Bronze Age origins. Experts believe the waterlogged conditions of ...

The discovery hints at small-scale steel production during the Final Bronze Age ... from the Early Iron Age (800 to 600 B.C.). Widespread steel production for weapons and tools probably only ...

Bronze Age humans have been credited with a number of civilizational advancements: the invention of irrigation, the wheel, writing systems and the ability to forge weapons and tools from the ...

various tools, and 15 wooden buckets. “One of those buckets … on the bottom of it were loads and loads of cut marks so we know that people living in that Bronze Age kitchen when they needed an ...

Two Bronze Age-style log boats are ready to float after a team of volunteers completed their build using replica tools and fire. The project is part of a £250,000 Heritage Lottery project to ...

Bronze Age Europeans earned and spent money in much the same way as we do today, indicating that the origins of the “market economy” are far more ancient than expected. That is the ...

Cemal Pulak, a nautical archaeologist at Texas A&M University who was not involved in the find, said, “I consider any Bronze Age shipwreck ... stronger farming tools that increased agricultural ...