New evidence reveals that Tamil Nadu may have skipped the Copper Age, directly advancing to iron smelting. Archaeological findings challenge traditional history, suggesting an early Iron Age ...

Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5,400 years old. This suggests that the process of extracting, smelting, ...

The age marks a period when societies began using ... production] across different parts of the world". Remains of an iron smelting furnace at the Kodumanal site Early iron came in two forms ...

people transitioned from using stone directly to smelting iron. Even in the Middle East, civilizations made iron implements during the so-called Bronze Age, although iron did not become common ...

The recent archaeological revelations from Sivagalai in Tamil Nadu have sent ripples across historical and scientific ...

Iron working was a common element of everyday life in Iron Age Britain. By 500 BC iron had replaced bronze as the usual metal for making tools and weapons. Blacksmiths produced iron using charcoal ...

The discovery of a new class of high-temperature superconductors based on iron tests the limits of current theoretical and computational tools for the understanding of strongly correlated systems.

Tamil Nadu Iron Age: Turkey was widely believed to be the first region in the world where iron was smelted and used, however a recent archeological discovery in Tamil Nadu has reignited the debate ...

The unearthing of an iron smelting furnace at Kodumanal also lends ... How does this change our understanding of the Iron Age? Though iron artifacts have been unearthed at 27 locations in eight ...

For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient past. Their digs have uncovered early scripts that rewrite literacy ...