Zusammenfassung der Ressource
AoB Sem: Bronze Age
- Why called bronze age?
- Danish museum in Copenhagen wanted to organise items into collections.
- Bronze = copper & tin
- Other metals can be included, e.g.
lead to make it flow into moulds
better, however not true bronze now
- Flint knife would pierce bronze as it's harder
- Bronze = soft
- Bronze casting
- Probably found out accidentally
- Low melting point
- Can be poured
- Goes in green, comes out shiny
- Moulds chipped out of stone
- Pottery used
- More variety in patterns
- Sometimes tied string around wet pottery to create a pattern
- Uses
- Food vessels
- Beakers
- Urns