A Study of the Iron Tools Use and Its Role in Technological Developments and Social and Economic Evolutions in the Late Iron Age Societies (with Emphasis on the West and Northwest of Iran)

Mollazadeh, K.

A Study of the Iron Tools Use and Its Role in Technological Developments and Social and Economic Evolutions in the Late Iron Age Societies (with Emphasis on the West and Northwest of Iran)

Author

K. Mollazadeh

Associate Professor in Archaeology, Bu- Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran

Abstract

For the first time, invention of iron production technique emerged by the Hittite in Anatolia, in the mid-second millennium BC. (about 1200 BC). Hittite government collapsed and iron production technology expanded to the adjacent areas, including Iran. Soon iron was used for production of various tools, equipments, weapons, ornaments and other items. In Iran, the first iron objected, in a limited number, appeared among the remains of Iron Age I (1200-1450 BC). Iron objects are much more in the Iron Age II (1200-800BC). In the first half of the first millennium BC the widespread use of iron for making tools led to rapid technological advances and extensive changes in the social and economic structures. In this paper, the role of iron production technology in these extensive changes will be studied.

Keywords

Iron Age

Iron production technology

Technological progress

Cultural development

Axial period