Before revision: Related usage Many of the events of these mythological ages are given brief historical perspective in the later Christian period in a work by Eusebius Modern historical periodisation such as the Three-age system has taken up the Bronze Age and the Iron Age , seeking to define them precisely on the basis of systematic archaeological research, while discarding the Golden and Silver Ages as myth and substituting the Stone Age as the earliest Age Iron Age to describe archaeological periods following the Stone Age based on predominant metallurgical practices.
After revision: Related usage Many of the events of these mythological ages are given brief historical perspective in the later Christian period in a work by Eusebius Modern historical periodisation such as the Three-age system has reappropriated the terms Bronze Age and Iron Age to describe archaeological periods following the Stone Age based on predominant metallurgical practices.