Bronze Age

• The Bronze Age is a period of time covering 3,200 to 500 BCE when the use of Bronze (a fusion of copper and tin) was dominant.
• It is one of the Three Ages applied to Europe created by the Danish Archeologist Christian Jurgensen Thomsen (1788-1865 CE).

Bronze Age Monuments

• The Bronze Age (3,200-500 BCE) produced various man-made stone structures around the world that were astronomically aligned, particularly with the Winter Solstice or Summer Solstice.
• Some sites date back to the Neolithic Age (8,000-3,000 BCE)

The Three Ages

• Stone Age
  • Palaeolithic (2.6 million years ago until 10,000 years ago)
  • Mesolithic (10,000 to 8,000 years ago)
  • Neolithic (10,000 to 5,000 years ago)
• Bronze Age: (3,200-500 BCE)
  • Copper Age.
  • Bronze Age.
• Iron Age: (1,200 BCE-400 CE).

The Historical Eras

• Prehistoric Era: 2.6 million years ago to 8-600 BCE.
• Classical Era: also known as Classical Antiquity: 8-600 BCE – 476 CE.
• Medieval Era: 476 CE – 1450 CE.
• Early Modern Era: 1450 CE – 1750 CE.
• Modern Era: 1750 CE – present.