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Show The Iron Age. The best informed sources give the period from 2(K0 to 2."tX! P.. C. as marking mark-ing the transition from bronze to iron, declares the Christian Herald. Pn f. J. R. Wilson. In a recent article in !he Princeton Theological Review, presents pre-sents pretty nearly all of the available evidence on the subject. The "iron Bge" seems to have begun earliest in Asia Minor, where iron was used for various purposes as early as 2."0 B. C. The people of Nippur used iron knives and arrowheads as early us 20O0 B. C. and iron is claimed to have been In use In Babylon five centuries earlier. India is known to have had Iron in alum-dance alum-dance In 1500 B. C and the Cbinc-e "Ar.nnls" mention it as having heen in use there in 2W0 B. C, or nearly 5.000 years ago. |