Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

To sum up, the period of Bronze Age man lasted for almost 1,500 years, a time that took the giant step from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

This current period in time. The previous historical "age" periods were the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. The Silicon Age is also called the "age of information." THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...