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Re:Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space by JacobAldridge on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:47PM (#16006045)
"Precocious" means roughly "premature", or "appearing before its time". So the word is used correctly here to talk about Iron artifacts appearing before they 'should' in the Iron Age.
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Re:Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space by davidhakendel on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:00PM (#16006099)
Ah. I see how that was used. It was another nod to the disbelief of people's knowledge prior to the iron age. Thank you.
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Re:Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space by bookofjoe on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:51PM (#16006059)
You are indeed a close, careful reader. Kudos!
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