[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bronze Age"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Bronze Age (OED 1865)

1856 _Asiatic Researches_ June (19th Century U.K. Periodicals)  Wright, who will not admit the existence of a "Bronze Age" in Northern history, is inclined to think that these Bronze Leaf-shaped swords are of Roman manufacture.


Fred Shapiro

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