The Road to Metallurgy - Fire & Rocks

The Long Story Of How Humans Mastered Fire, Pigments and Minerals

How, when and why humans began to master metals is one of those great questions of archaeology and world history, the long slow story of controlling fire and experimenting with different rocks, pigments and ores. Too often though it is presented as an ex nihilo breakthrough, a revolution without precedent. In fact, humans had been tinkering with both fi…