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 Ancient Near East, and by analogy also used of other parts of the Old World.