Copper was the first metal used to make ornaments like necklaces and bracelets. Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was harder and used to make tools and weapons. Iron was the hardest metal and was used to make many tools for farming and improving living conditions. Metallurgy advanced from copper to bronze to iron over time, changing toolmaking and society.

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sciences that is about
“Jewellery in the Metal Age”

5. - Copper was the first metal known. It is low hardness and
was used to make ornaments.
Example: necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, cups, plates,
vases

6. - Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin and is harder and stronger than
copper. Several villages in the eastern Mediterranean discovered the
metallurgy and progressed rapidly.
With the bronze they manufactured agricultural tools
such as plows and sickles; military weapons such as
swords, like swords, spears and shields; and household
utensils such as jars, bowls and cups.

7. - Iron is found somewhere near the Black Sea instead.
It is harder and more durable than bronze and was a great superiority in the
manufacture of objects. The instruments made of iron were very different: axes,
knives, clippers, tweezers, hoes, scythes, sickles, grates for plows, chisels,
hammers, compasses, scissors, nail files, razors, harnesses carriage

9. FORMS OF WORKING WITH THE METALS
Copper is a malleable, weak, soft and of little use for the manufacture of
tools and practical metal utensils. With it especially ornaments (beads,
bracelets, rings, headbands and pins), which served as luxury items or
social prestige for those who take them away were manufactured.
However, also found arrows, daggers and axes. Perhaps only the axes
may have purposes related to work or combat, although there are
serious doubts about its practical utility, given the low strength thereof.
Stone axes were still stronger than them. Therefore, the use of metal
was still minority and most tools were still stone, hence the Copper Age
also be called Chalcolithic(Greek: tracing “copper” and lithos “stone”)

10. Bronze alloy is a mixture of nine parts or copper and tin; This combination
produces a new metal, much harder than the two components, and easier to
melt and work than copper. It is very possible that some other metal is added,
such as antimony, because they got an elastic and flexible bronze, that could
work in hot.
The first of bronze imitates the stone, and thus the first metal axes, had the
same triangular handle and lacked such as stone. Fundamentally bronze
weapons and utensils were manufactured luxury. Among the weapons, the
sword, to be an element that characterize the warlike character of this stage
appears. Besides who carries a sword is distinguished socially, belongs to a
different from the simple peasants social group. He is a warrior or a boss. Other
weapons are daggers, daggers, breastplates, helmets, spearheads and shields.

11. Iron is used to make all kinds of tools for the field and to improve working and
living conditions of the people
Since ancient times it was known in certain places (3000 a. C. in Egypt and
Mesopotamia) the use of meteoric iron unprocessed to make small objects.
However, the manufacture of iron objects requires some knowledge and a
completely different from the bronze technology. While humans of this era
could smelt copper and tin, not getting smelt iron at temperatures of copper,
and when I tried got a hard mass and weak implementation report. By not
getting the right cast iron, iron had to work through ovens, whose fires were
rekindled with bellows and forge objects was done by hammering, after
successive applications to fire and water to get the correct hardening and
tempering . Under iron metallurgy emerged a new craft and some new useful:
tongs and hammer blacksmith.
The new iron technology therefore required work red hot, and everything was a
secret. The first to learn this secret were the Hittites, inhabitants of the central
Anatolian peninsula (modern Turkey), who jealously guarded for many years. The
Hittite empire would fall around 1200 a. C. and from this date the new iron
technology began to spread elsewhere.

13. It is located in Ibeas de Juarros,
Burgos. It have 900.000 years
old. Declarated a World Heritage
site in the year 2.000.
• ATAPUERCA

14. Aliseda’s treasure.VII-VI
B.C.
Aliseda is located in Cáceres, Extremadura. Now a
days you can find it in the “Museo de Arqueología
de Madrid”.
They found jewllery made of gold, silver, bronze
and gemstone. They are from the Bronze age in
the Tartessos civilisation.

16. In the Metal Age the most common materials were the
copper, the iron, the bronze and the tin, but the tin was
only used to made alloys like bronze (that is made of
copper and tin. Also the metals were extracted from a
piece of rock called ore.

17. Thanks to the copper, metallurgy was invented and also minery,
agriculture and ganadery developed so much.
Bronce was discovered in the actual Armenia and during this period
Megalithic constructions started to generalize. The Aegean Sea was
an intense area of trade
The iron was principally the metal used to made tools and weapons
because of his strength. There was a lot of changes in agriculture,
religious beliefs and artistic stiles.