The image below shows iron producing furnaces. The one above is of homes built in similar forms. No Bronze Age existed in sub-Saharan Africa to transition stone technology into an iron one. Scholars still debate precisely where the knowledge to make iron originated, but most agree the dawn of metals - copper, silver, gold, lead and iron - radiated out from western Asia 10,000 years ago.

Life Force at the Anvil
The Blacksmith's Art from Africa

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