(classical mythology) the last and worst age of the world (archeology) the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons
A level of culture in which man used iron and the technology of iron production. Estimated to have begun in Europe about 1100 BC
The Iron Age was a period of time which began when people started making things from iron about three thousand years ago. the remains of an Iron Age fort. the period of time about 3000 years ago when iron was first used for making tools, weapons etc Bronze Age, Stone Age. Final technological and cultural stage in the Stone-Bronze-Iron-Age sequence (or Three-Age System) in which iron largely replaced bronze in implements and weapons. The start of the Iron Age varied geographically, beginning in the Middle East and southeastern Europe 1200 BC but in China not until 600 BC. Though the large-scale production of iron implements brought new patterns of more permanent settlement, use of iron for weapons put arms in the hands of the masses for the first time and set off a series of large-scale movements and conquests that did not end for 2,000 years and that changed the face of Europe and Asia. See also Bronze Age