The antiquity of iron in Indonesia is similar to the antiquity of bronze and gold (Table 1), which has convinced scholars to recognize a Bronze- Iron Age (Van Heekeren, 1958), Paleometallic Period (Soegondho, 1995), or Early Metal Age (Bellwood, 2017).
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