The PEDIGREE of
Invention of Steel

 
     (use of magnetite sand from the shores of the Black Sea as a flux agent, and the accidental discover of high-quality steel in the hammering of swords were key steps in this invention)

     Born:  Anatolia abt. 1400 BC    Died:  1200 BC

 "Child(ren)":       Iron Age in East Mediterranean
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/-- poss.  Exploding Pottery
/-- Kiln-hardened Pottery  (West Asia 9000? BC)
/-- Metal smelting
/-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 4
| \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 3  (Anatolia 7000? BC)
|  \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 2
/   \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 1
/-- Bronze Age in Anatolia
| \-- Woman of the Late Copper Age
|  \-- Woman of the Middle Copper Age
|  \  /-- Man of the MAGDALENIAN TOOLKIT   +====> [ 38]
|  |  /   / or: AHRENSBURG CULTURE
|  |  /-- poss.  Man of the MAGELMOSE TOOLKIT
|  |  /-- (NN) ... (NN)
|  |  | \ / ( many missing generations)
|  |  /  \-- Woman of the KEMARAN CULTURE   +====> [ 2]
|  |  /-- Man of pre-Neolithic Age
|  |  /-- Man of the Fertile-Crescent Neolithic Age
|  |  /-- Man of the MEDITERRANIAN Neolithic CULTURE
|  |  /-- Man of the DANUBIAN Neolithic CULTURE
|  | /-- Man of the CHALCOLITHIC (AENEOLITHIC) CULTURE
|  | | \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 6a
|  | |  \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 5
|  | |  \  /-- poss.  Exploding Pottery
|  | |  |  /-- Kiln-hardened Pottery
|  | |  | /-- Metal smelting
|  | |  \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 4
|  | |  \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 3
|  | |  \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 2
|  | /   \-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 1
/   \-- Woman of the Early Copper Age
/-- Early Use of Iron
/  
- Invention of Steel
\ 
\-- Increasing need for wood in construction and as fuel
 

  (poss.) ``2-Great Grandchildren:''       First Speaker of Insular Celtic   ;   First Speaker of P-Celtic   ;   First Speaker of Goidelic   ;   First Speaker of Old Low Germanic   ;   Ethnic groups of South Africa   ;   Ethnic groups of Central Africa
 
  (poss.) ``3(+)-Great Grandchildren:''       First Speaker of Old Irish   ;   Dyfynwal Hen (Duke/King) of CAMBRIA & CORNWALL   ;   First Speaker of Brythonic   ;   Murchad (Muireadhach; I) Balgrach MacSIMON   ;   First Speaker of Northern Old French   ;   First Speaker of Old English
 

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