High in Spain’s eastern Pyrenees, inside a cave that overlooks the Nuria Valley from 2,235 meters above sea level, ...

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Archaeologists in the Pyrenees have discovered an ancient high-altitude mining camp where prehistoric people processed copper ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of prehistoric copper smelting in Cave 338, situated 7,332 feet above sea level in Spain’s Pyrenees. Excavations revealed hearths, mineral fragments likely to be ...

In the past, scientists thought that prehistoric peoples only travelled briefly through high-altitude mountain areas, rather ...

The ancient copper industry in the Sultanate of Oman serves as compelling evidence of an advanced civilisation that evolved into a leading industrial power nearly five thousand years ago. Historical ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...