Pedigree: Copper Metallurgy Stage 7

The PEDIGREE of

Copper Metallurgy Stage 7

Alloying with arsenic or tin (accidentally at first, but deliberate by about 3000 BC; Note that a mold-cast bronze object is also known in China by this date)

Born: 3000 BC

"Child(ren)": Copper Metallurgy Stage 8

________	________	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
/	-- Tin mining (Taurus mtns, Anatolia 3200 BC - ?)
/
- Copper Metallurgy Stage 7
\
\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 6b
	\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 6a (Balkans 4500? BC)
		\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 5 (5000? BC - ?)
			\			/	-- poss. Exploding Pottery
			\|		/	-- Kiln-hardened Pottery
			\|	/	-- Metal smelting
			\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 4
				\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 3
					\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 2
						\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 1

``3-Great Grandchild:'' Man of Middle Minoan II

``8-Great Grandchild:'' Man of the Subminoan era in Crete