Iron Age
Archaeological period This article is about the historical/archaeological period known as the Iron Age. For the mythological Iron Age, see Ages of Man. Iron Age This box: view talk edit ↑ Bronze Age Ancient Near East (1200–550 BC) Bronze Age collapse (1200–1150 BC) Anatolia, Caucasus, Levant Europe Aegean (1190–700 BC) Italy (1100–700 BC) Balkans (1100 BC – AD 150) Eastern Europe (900–650 BC) Central Europe (800–50 BC) Great Britain (800 BC – AD 100) Northern Europe (500 BC – AD 800) South Asia (1200–200 BC) East Asia (500 BC – AD 300) Iron metallurgy in Africa Iron Age metallurgy Ancient iron production ↓ Ancient history Mediterranean, Greater Persia, South Asia, China Historiography Greek, Roman, Chinese, Medieval The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age. It is an archaeological era in the prehistory and protohistory of Europe and the ...