>>42341265>>42341272>>42341308>>42341320>>42347171>>42342575>>42344825>>42347602The whole concept of "ages" is archaic Victorian era pseudoscience anyways: It's just something and old 19th century archeologists came up with to date artifacts before more reliable dating methoids came about, and speffically for eurasian artifqacts, and from there it just because a retroactive set of milestones for eruopean and near eastern history.
It's not actually a set of technological steps societies progress through: The Aztec and Maya (and other Mesoamerican civilizations which don't get enough credit) for example almost exclusively used stone tools, but had cities that absolutely btfo'd the largest Bronze and Iron age cities and in other regards were variously more comparable to bronze/iron, Classical or Medieval societies (hell in terms of bonotanical science the Aztec were ahead of medivial europe and were approaching scientific revoluition-tier shit with formal taxnomy), without matching up to any exact in particular since they were isolated and didn't develop in the exact same way or in the same order as Europeans/Middle Easterners. On the flip side, there are random tribes in Africa who independently invented steel without ever inventing Bronze, while still being in small tribes in huts.
Just because European/Near eastern shit happened to progress in the stone > bronze > iron etc manner doesn't mean everybody does, and in general trying to just use tool materials as a proxy for social/technological complexity is inherently flawed, since for a lot of things your primary tool material has no bearing on your ability to build cities or how complex your goverments are, etc.
