Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that the Hittite Empire used iron first, redefining the timeline of iron usage in global archaeology.
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