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The BronzeAge is a period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use) consisted of techniques for smeltingcopper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those metals in order to cast bronze.
The Early BronzeAge saw the rise of urbanization into organized city states and the invention of writing (the Uruk period in the fourth millennium BC).
The late bronzeageurnfield culture, (1300BC-700 BC) is characterized by cremation burials.
The BronzeAge is a period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smeltingcopper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze.
The BronzeAge in the Near East is considered as beginning around 3300 BC with the increasing use of bronze and the rise of complex urban civilisation (to varying degrees and in varying forms) in the main cultural centres of the region, Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The end of the BronzeAge in the Near East is normally associated with the disturbances created by large population movements in the 12th century BC and the rise of new technologies and political formations, characterised as the start of the IronAge.
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