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India’s Longest Iron Age Spear Unearthed in Tamil Nadu, Pointing to Early Metallurgical Mastery
In the dry soil of southern India, archaeologists have uncovered a weapon that is forcing scholars to reconsider the technological limits of the Iron Age. Excavated from a burial site in Tamil Nadu, a nearly 2.5-meter-long iron spear is now believed to be the longest Iron Age iron spear ever discovered in India—and possibly one…