From the Fiery Furnace: The role of metals in human evolution – Semester 1

$25.00

Description: In this short course we will trace humankind’s progression from Stone Age, through Bronze Age, to Iron Age and on into the Age of New Metals. See Further Details for a full description.

Tutor: Nigel Radford
Duration: 5 weeks
Start Date: 18th February 2025
Day & Time: Tuesday 9.45 – 11.15 am

Semester one enrolments are now closed.
We cannot accept any late enrolments during our Administration Week (11th - 14th Feb) and will only accept in-person late enrolments in the first two weeks of the semester from new members or returning members with extenuating circumstances. A $10 administration fee will be applied. From week three we will accept in-person late enrolments for courses with vacancies but full course fees will be applied.

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Full Description: Imagine your family group 12,000 years ago coming out of the most recent major Ice Event. You are hunter-gatherers using only stone and wood for tools and weapons. Then one day, your neighbouring ‘friends’ set about you with swords and spears made of a hard, sharp shiny substance called ‘metal’. They defeat your group in a short and bloody battle, steal the cave where you live and your females, probably killing most of the men in the process. To survive you need to get some of their ‘metal’.  So begins the ‘lust’ for metal which has had huge influence on the last 10,000 years. Come and journey through these sometimes troubled and sometimes enlightened times to the present day, via the Stone Ages, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and into the Age of Light metals and the Nuclear Age.