What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age?

Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:45PM (#21587013)

>wrought iron is highly inferior to bronze.

What?

Wrought iron is immensely more useful than bronze in many applications demanding strength (per weight or per volume, take your pick) and/or toughness.

There's a reason things like metal bridges, railways, etc. all became common only after wrought iron became readily available.

Likewise for cast iron, other than malleability it is mechanically superior to bronze.

There's a reason the only time you see bronze these days is bushing material and applications demanding corrosion resistance for which aluminum/zinc alloys would be unsuitable.

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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by ummonk on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:29PM (#21590594)

To clarify, I meant superior for contemporary needs. People weren’t building large scale structures out of metal, but they were crafting tools, weaponry, and armor, for which wrought iron’s softness is a dealbreaker.

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