A CLEVER Bronze-Age worker was thinking outside the box one day 5,500 years ago when ihe came up with an inspired idea. A great way of making things with the bronze alloys that were being developed then, he reasoned, would be to heat them until they started melting and pound them together with a hammer. By combining heat and pressure in this way, craftsmen could make just about anything that required a strong metal like bronze.
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