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Why didn't ancient man just use copper instead of bronze? Was there a copper age before the bronze age?
Isn't copper a lot more easy to use? After all, it's an element, isn't it? And isn't bronze an alloy? That is, don't you have to go through some kind of smelting process to make the bronze? Isn't that difficult to do? Wouldn't it be much easier just to use the copper that you find, so you don't have to go through all that trouble? If they're going to go through all that smelting trouble, then why didn't they just use iron and skip the bronze age?
Yes, there was a copper age. It's called the chalcolithic. Stone tools were still dominant though. Copper was used mainly for ornaments and non-functional items. The major shortcoming of copper is of course that it's too soft to be used in a utilitarian manner. It must be used in an alloy to make bronze for it to be really useful. Arsenic was first used to make bronze, but was replaced by tin before too long. Those who claim copper and bronze came before iron because people didn't know about iron ore are seriously misinformed. People have known about iron ore for a long time. It is ubiquitous, being found the world over and in near surface deposits. Copper and tin are relatively rare compared to iron. The reason iron wasn't used until a later period was because it has a higher melting point, and therefore requires a much higher furnace temperature to become malleable. Despite that, there's increasing evidence that iron was being worked much earlier than the established bronze age/iron age transition. Iron technology also appears to have been invented independently in sub-Saharan Africa and Anatolia (turkey), and also possibly in other places in Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The reasons for persisting in using bronze over iron, even well into the iron age, are mostly economical. For one thing, the amount of timber needed to produce adequate furnace temperatures to work iron would have been ridiculous. Other social factors could also exist, though those are less easily identifiable in an archaeological sense.
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