"Usually Bronze Age metalwork can go a bit crumbly ... This incomplete socketed 130mm (6in) axe head has a large chip in its blade - it would have been resharpened until it weakened and was ...

Archaeology South-East/ UCL Handaxes are found fairly frequently at archaeological sites from this period, but the large one found recently in Kent is unusual. "What is really distinctive about ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer ...

The large town, which was home to up to 500 residents, was built around 2,400 BC during the early Bronze Age, the researchers said. It was abandoned around a thousand years later. "No one knows ...

People in Egypt and Mesopotamia adopted sedentary lifestyles in earlier times. Compared to the large Bronze Age cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt, settlements in Saudi Arabia tended to be smaller.

But others may date to the Bronze Age and early Iron Age heyday of Dmanisis Gora. For a large part of the community, however, making a living meant herding livestock, a life of constant migration ...