BRONZE AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bronze Age mean? 

• BRONZE AGE (noun)
  The noun BRONZE AGE has 2 senses:

1. (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons

2. (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence

  Familiarity information: BRONZE AGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRONZE AGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Domain category:

archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)

Holonyms ("Bronze Age" is a part of...):

prehistoric culture; prehistory (the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("bronze age" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Domain category:

classical mythology (the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks)

 Context examples 

This Bronze Age cave was used by different societies over 3300-2600 years ago.

(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)

Showing that the virus has been circulating in humans since at least the Bronze Age is a big scientific advancement, as previous attempts to estimate how long the virus has infected humans have ranged from 400 years to 34,000 years.

(Oldest genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons, University of Cambridge)

Moreover, the UGR team of researchers points out that, although in the Bronze Age a new type of funerary ritual with individual tombs was established, this did not mean the social rupture that we thought until now, since the re‑use of ancient funerary monuments continued for several hundred years.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)

The new research, led by a group of academics at the Center for Pathogen Evolution in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, took genetic samples from skeletons across Europe and Asia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, and found 25 HBV-positive skeletons amongst the remains.

(Oldest genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons, University of Cambridge)

Researchers from the University of Granada have discovered that the megalithic necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería, south‑eastern Spain) prolonged its funerary use throughout the Bronze Age, a thousand years longer than previously thought, and that despite its proximity to the sea, people living there did not make use of marine resources.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)