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Metals in the Stone Age - Coggle Diagram
Metals in the Stone Age
copper was first discovered around 9000BC, a naturally occurring, relatively pure metal.
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The first recorded metals used were those found, in an unreacted state referred to as 'Native Metals'.
Stone Age man learned to fashion gold into jewellery. The popularity of gold is largely due to its scarcity, value and mankind’s fascination with the metal.
The use of copper in antiquity is of more significance than gold as the first tools, implements and weapons were made from copper.
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The Stone Age is contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, with the possible exception of the early Stone Age, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools
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Innovation of the technique of smelting ore is regarded as ending the Stone Age and beginning the Bronze Age.
Though some simple metalworking of malleable metals, particularly the use of gold and copper for purposes of ornamentation, was known in the Stone Age, it is the melting and smelting of copper that marks the end of the Stone Age.
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Over the next 2000 years, leading up to the Bronze age, man mastered how to find, manipulate and use these native metals in better ways and in a range of applications.
Copper, much like Gold and Silver existed in a natural state, with 99.9% pure Ores found around the globe.
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