[[Imago:Ironageroof.jpg|thumb|222px|left|Tectum quasi de Aetate Ferrea apud Fundum Butser in [[Hantonia]] [[Angliae]]]]
Aetas Ferrea habeturincepisse coeperehabetur saeculo duodecimo a.C.n. in [[Asia]], [[Persia]], [[India]] (cum [[civilizatio Vedica|civilizatione Vedica]] post [[Rigveda]]m), et [[Graecia]] (per [[Obscurae Aetates Graecae|Obscuras Aetates Graecas]]). <!-- In other regions of [[Europe]], it started much later. The Iron Age began in the 8th century BC in [[Halstatt culture|Central Europe]] and the 6th century BC in [[pre-Roman Iron Age|Northern Europe]]. Iron use, in [[smelting]] and forging for tools, appears in West Africa by 1200 BC, making it one of the first places for the birth of the Iron Age.<ref name="millermintz">Duncan E. Miller and N. J. Van Der Merwe, 'Early Metal Working in Sub Saharan Africa' ''Journal of African History'' 35 (1994) 1–36; Minze Stuiver and N. J. Van Der Merwe, 'Radiocarbon Chronology of the Iron Age in Sub-Saharan Africa' ''Current Anthropology'' 1968.</ref><ref>[http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/ironage.html How Old is the Iron Age in Sub-Saharan Africa?] — by Roderick J. McIntosh, Archaeological Institute of America (1999)</ref> However, it is still not determined whether the use of iron in Africa was invented independently there or was the result of technology transfer from the north.<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/history_in_africa/v032/32.1alpern.pdf Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa] — by Stanley B. Alpern (2005)</ref> -->
Aetas Ferrea divisa est in duo genera, Aetatem Ferream I et Aetatem Ferream II. <!-- Ferrea I (1200–1000 a.C.n.) illustrates continuity and discontinuity with the (previous) Late Bronze Age. There is no definitive cultural break between the thirteenth and twelfth centuries throughout the entire [aforesaid] region, though certain new features in the hill country, Transjordan and coastal region may suggest the appearance of the Aramaean and Sea People groups. There is evidence, however, that shows strong continuity with Bronze Age culture, though as one moves later into Iron I, the culture begins to diverge more significantly from that of the late second millennium.-->
