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Is Iron Age a Prehistoric/Protohistoric period in Western Asia?
Please update this Eurocentric article, the bronze age page says "The Bronze Age is a historic period, approximately 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE, that was characterized by the use of bronze, in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization". How is bronze age historic while iron age is a protohistoric age ? the near east had written records and literature in Neo-Assyrian times, with king lists and historical records going back all the way to Sumerians(3400bc).Clearly this article takes into account the old 19th century European standards of humanity's progress. No longer considered to be true in literary circles, just look at the library of Assurbanipal and the Mari archives, where was Herodotus when people were writing those tablets, when he was born the Mesopotamians already had a long literary history 2000 years older than his works! How shameful to equate the Greeks of old with legends and wisdom while the near eastern people with barbarians for whom Herodotus was the teacher of histography. Please the world is not European and neither does it revolve around Europe. How condescending that the Achaemenid are considered the end of iron age because the records provided by Herodotus "for the Ancient Near East, the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire c. 550 BC is traditionally and still usually taken as a cut-off date, later dates being considered historical by virtue of the record by Herodotus, despite considerable written records from far earlier (well back into the Bronze Age) now being known", if being known then why doesn't the article reflect that.