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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Technology
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 20:59:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 12:49:47 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> I also don’t understand why there was no American bronze age
> when they certainly used metals, including copper.

That level of technology is called “chalcolithic”. That is, they mainly 
use fine stone tools, but they have also found a limited use for copper, 
which can be found lying around pure in some places, is easily workable 
but too soft to do much with. And they haven’t yet developed smelting 
technology to extract metals from ores and create harder alloys out of 
them, like bronze.

There is always resistance to new technological developments. They are 
often seen as a threat to the established order.