How to Use the Iron Age in a Sentence

the Iron Age

noun

• In Oc Eo, culture prospered between the first and eighth centuries, during the latter years of the Iron Age.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• The second structure dates to the Iron Age, around the first millenium B.C., experts said.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• By the Iron Age, most of the hazelnuts appear to have been gathered in an open area and not a woodland like the ones that existed as the glaciers retreated.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• Another gravesite, located about 1,300 feet away, was filled with the remains of six cremations dating to the Iron Age.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• The Stone Age gave way to the Iron Age only when people figured out how to deploy energy to remove the oxygen from the metal ores found in nature.
  — David Fork, IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2021
• However, the area has been populated since the Iron Age, and several archaeological gems can be seen close to the trail.
  — David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
• Experts said the site was found in Beaugency, an area previously unknown to have been inhabited during the Iron Age.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• Another represents a man who lived during the Iron Age some 1,500 years ago and performed hard agricultural labor.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
• Similarly, the Iron Age saw an upgrade in weapons quality, from bronze to more durable iron, and a political realignment as the Assyrian empire rose to power.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
• Dating to the Iron Age, the hair-raising discovery offers insight into how communities preserved and handled human remains.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• Particularly intriguing was the fact the grave on the Isles of Scilly contained both a sword — which would normally indicate a male burial during the Iron Age — and a bronze mirror, associated with female burials.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Until now, the archaeological record was almost devoid of any evidence of significant animal sacrifices in the Mediterranean region during the Iron Age.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024