the Bronze Age
noun
: a period of time that began between 4000 and 3000 B.C. in which people used bronze to make weapons and tools
The artifact dates to the Bronze Age.
a Bronze Age weapon/tool
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Krypto endured through the Bronze Age, too, until DC's decades of continuity got too twisted and the publisher wiped the slate clean with the event comic storyline Crisis on Infinite Earths in the mid-'80s.
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James Grebey, Time, 10 July 2025
Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Bronze Age vessels for food and wine and imaginative animal sculptures are on view for the first time in New York through July 13.
—Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Recent research shows that parents have long looked for ways to keep their children entertained – including during the Bronze Age.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
However, some 3,000 years ago—around the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age—newcomers to the area disturbed the burial site by removing parts of the mound and displacing stones.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2025
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James Grebey, Time, 10 July 2025
Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Bronze Age vessels for food and wine and imaginative animal sculptures are on view for the first time in New York through July 13.
—Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Recent research shows that parents have long looked for ways to keep their children entertained – including during the Bronze Age.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
However, some 3,000 years ago—around the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age—newcomers to the area disturbed the burial site by removing parts of the mound and displacing stones.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2025
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