One hears about the iron age and the bronze age—eras in which people discovered metallurgy. But how did that happen? Was it like:
1. Look at rock
2. See shiny
3. Try to melt the shiny out of the rock
4. Profit?
Explain it to me!
In: 1643
If you watch the Primitive Technology channel on youtube, a lot of videos show how firing different kinds of pottery and dirts produced small iron prills. It probably happened in a similar fashion over thousands of years.
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