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  1. Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

  2. Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

  3. Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

  4. Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

  5. Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

  6. Archaeologists just found the grandparents’ room in a 2,700-year-old Israelite house. A cedar chair, a rare footbath, & a ground floor bedroom (the ladder to the 2nd floor being the giveaway). #Archaeology #IronAge #AncientIsrael anthropology.net/p/the-grandpa

  7. 2,700-year-old kohl from Iran reveals first known use of graphite in ancient eye makeup

    Researchers analyzed a sample of kohl, a traditional eye makeup used throughout the ancient Middle East, from an Iron Age burial site at Kani Koter in Iran’s Kurdistan Province...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/06/270

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    #archaeology #archaeologynews #AncientIran #EyeMakeup #kohl #ironage

  8. Inheriting status and power in the early #IronAge: The case of #Hallstatt #matrilineality (at least according latest #aDNA analyses at the burials from Eberdingen-Hochdorf and Asperg-Grafenbuhl, Germany:

    science.org/content/article/gr by @spoke32 via @ScienceMagazine