The trove of over 10,000 artifacts—when put together, they total over 220 pounds—found on the site dates includes prehistoric flint tools ... Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.

The beginning of the Bronze Age in Britain can be put around 2,000 BC. Although not certain, it is generally thought that the new bronze tools and weapons identified with this age were brought ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer ...

They took most of their belongings with them and left behind only what was too heavy to carry: Large and heavy vessels, together with heavy stone tools ... Bronze Age because they needed plastic ...

which for many centuries was the preferred metal for tools and weapons. Yet sources of tin are very scarce – and were especially so for the rapidly growing bronze age towns, cities and states around ...