First came stone, then came copper, then came bronze, then came iron, now Steel is

I'm not aware of there being a "Copper Age" in common historiography and I'm pretty sure steel was made a lot earlier than the 17th Century. In any case, these terms are generally applied to eras and places of history less well-understood than others. The Iron Age is basically synonymous with Classical Antiquity, but the term Iron Age itself is in my experience more often used when describing the northern Europeans whose history is much less detailed than that of Rome for example so "Iron Age" as a description of a period in their history is more useful than some other arbitrary terms. Steel on the other hand is not a common hallmark of long-eras barely detailed by the histories, so describing the past 1000+ years as "the Steel Age" isn't very helpful or specific.
 
Steel is pretty old, or at least high-carbon iron is. Older than the middle ages for sure, though not universal until sometime later.
 
Because we've been using steel for more than 1000 years now, and it's about as defining of our era as cotton or wool?
 
I'm not aware of there being a "Copper Age" in common historiography

In archeology we were taught about the Copper age which was also referred to as the Chalcolithic Period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. It doesnt come up that much in common historiography unless you are working around that time period.
 
Steel was used iron age but my reason why think this

Iron age used very little steel,

When 17 cheteny mass production of steel was rise and Steel was Replace Iron(With 1830 Mass Steel was no longer just dream of hopeless bridge maker to make biger birdge)(just like Iron did bronze, Just like bronze did Copper, Copper kinda did with stone)

Now we live the modren era and when use metal we use mostly steel*.

*stainless is one main type of steel because steel that doesn't rot by water or air
 
Also, steel IS iron. Or rather an iron alloy.

By the time we got to making steel in mass lots, we were in the Industrial Age, and steel was only a small part of that.


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When I was young, books talked about a 'Copper Age', but ja as Gordius says, it's usually referred to as 'Chalcolithic' these days, as copper isn't strong enough to replace stone for tools for all purposes.
 
I used to think that our current time was considered part of the Iron Age, so when I heard people using phrases like "since the Iron Age", I was confused and looked up some stuff. The answer I got was that the ages that are named after materials apply to times before we had much written records, so they are used for archaeology and not history.

Steel was invented well into the period that historians study, so archaeologists didn't name the age. I've made it clear that I'm not an expert in the area, but I think this is the answer.
 
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