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 ...

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

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 recent archaeological revelations from Sivagalai in Tamil Nadu have sent ripples across historical and scientific communities. With definitive evidence of i ...

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 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 ...