New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

Support the work that keeps journalism free, fair, and fearless. The Iron Age marks the period in human history when iron became the primary material for crafting weapons and tools. In India, it ...

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that ...

Rajan and R. Sivanantham, Mr. Stalin said: “The Iron Age began on Tamil soil!”. He went on to cite carbon dating results from renowned institutions. The finding meant that iron usage was ...

In an announcement that challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of the Iron Age, a new study has found evidence that the use of iron in ... These findings highlight the region’s ...

In that context, the revelation last week by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin that the Iron Age—deemed by historians, archaeologists ... not an artificial construct as asserted by the British and ...

He recalled he was taught that the antiquity of the Iron Age in India did not go beyond the 6th Century BC. “Now it has gone from 6th century BC to about 2500 BC. I am very proud to think that ...

Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday claimed that the “iron age” began in southern India 5,300 years ago, contesting accumulated archaeological evidence indicating that iron smelting ...

Tamil Nadu, which has declared itself a pioneer of the Iron Age following radiocarbon dating results from reputed institutes tracing iron samples from the State to 3345 BC, must now curb ...

Chennai: Proclaiming to the world, ‘The Iron Age began on Tamil soil,’ Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said, with immense pride and unmatched satisfaction, that the use of iron in Tamil ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that Tamil Nadu's Iron Age began as early as 3,345 BCE, predating the Hittite Empire's iron usage by a millennium. Radiometric dating of burial urn samples from ...