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, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered stunning evidence that Iron Age metalworkers in Poland were forging jewelry from meteorites ...

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 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 ...

For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient past. Now they've also uncovered something even older - evidence of ...

Experts say the findings in Tamil Nadu could change our understanding of the Iron Age and iron smelting in the Indian subcontinent. Also, “what these digs testify is to the existence of a distinctly ...

Study lead author Albert Jambon, an archaeometallurgist and professor emeritus at Sorbonne University in Paris, said the ...

An aerial view of Iron Age graves in Mayiladumparai in Tamil Nadu [Department of Archaeology/Tamil Nadu] ...