How to Use the Iron Age in a Sentence

the Iron Age

noun
  • The weaponry dates back to the Iron Age, according to the press release.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Nearly three millennia ago in central Italy, people of the Iron Age lived in wooden homes.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Dating back to the Iron Age, bells were worn around the necks of grazing livestock to ward off predators and to keep their owners aware of their whereabouts.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The shaft at the top of the Iron Age deposits, where the individual with Turner syndrome was found.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
  • In Oc Eo, culture prospered between the first and eighth centuries, during the latter years of the Iron Age.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • By the Iron Age, most of the hazelnuts appear to have been gathered in an open area and not a woodland like the ones that existed as the glaciers retreated.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
  • New technologies and industries of the Iron Age had shifted the supply chain and demand for raw materials.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Experts think the items belonged to the Brigantes, a tribe that controlled much of northern England during the Iron Age.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Close by, visitors can continue their journey through the past at the Iron Age Farm (Jernaldergården).
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • However, the area has been populated since the Iron Age, and several archaeological gems can be seen close to the trail.
    — David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Until that point, these communities continued to practice rituals similar to those of the Iron Age.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Another gravesite, located about 1,300 feet away, was filled with the remains of six cremations dating to the Iron Age.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • At some point along this path, at around the time of the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, some bright spark came upon the idea of fermenting alcohol.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Experts said the site was found in Beaugency, an area previously unknown to have been inhabited during the Iron Age.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Beyond restoring the physical landscape, the Iron Age mound might have symbolized a reestablishment of the sacred and social order.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The Stone Age gave way to the Iron Age only when people figured out how to deploy energy to remove the oxygen from the metal ores found in nature.
    — David Fork, IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2021
  • Remarkably, archaeologists also found two roundhouses from the Iron Age — which may date back as far as 3,000 years.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Archaeologists explained that the Late Bronze Age marked a transition as humans moved into the Iron Age.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026
  • Another represents a man who lived during the Iron Age some 1,500 years ago and performed hard agricultural labor.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Dating to the Iron Age, the hair-raising discovery offers insight into how communities preserved and handled human remains.
    — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In the Iron Age, many Celtic elites were buried in luxurious graves filled with ceremonial wagons, jewelry, furniture and dining wares.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
  • But the new research found evidence this technique was being used in many areas as far back as the Iron Age, around 625-500 BC.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Many famous bog bodies have violent causes of death, ranging from strangulation to slit throats, suggesting throwing a body in the bog during the Iron Age was intentional.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
  • During the Iron Age, iron became the dominant metal in the Middle East, beating out the previously ubiquitous bronze.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
  • In 2025, another metal detectorist discovered a gold coin dating back to the Iron Age in East Yorkshire.
    — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Similarly, the Iron Age saw an upgrade in weapons quality, from bronze to more durable iron, and a political realignment as the Assyrian empire rose to power.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Blacksmiths have relied on the softening glow of the forge since the Iron Age, and Metallurgy 101 dictates that thermal energy makes atoms slide past each other with ease.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026
  • At the beginning of the Iron Age, Phoenicians set out westwards, searching for valuable natural resources to be brought back and traded in the urbanized world of the eastern Mediterranean.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025

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