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Researchers studying a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia suggest that iron was discovered through experimentation with copper smelting, challenging previous assumptions and shedding light on the origins of iron metallurgy during the Iron Age.
A study from Georgia's Kvemo Bolnisi site reveals Bronze Age metallurgists were experimenting with iron oxides as flux in copper smelting, indicating an early understanding of iron's properties that may have contributed to the development of iron smelting technology, predating 500 BC.
A reanalysis of 3,000-year-old artifacts from Kvemo Bolnisi, Georgia, suggests that early copper smelters experimented with iron oxides as flux, which may have inadvertently laid the groundwork for the development of true iron smelting and the Iron Age, challenging the idea of a sudden technological breakthrough.