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I'd love to read more about this if you have a source?

• mikeash 10y ago
  From the Wikipedia article: "The Aegean Collapse has been attributed to the exhaustion of the Cyprus forests causing the end of the bronze trade. These forests are known to have existed into later times, and experiments have shown that charcoal production on the scale necessary for the bronze production of the late Bronze Age would have exhausted them in less than fifty years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age#European_timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age#European_timeline I don't know enough about the subject beyond what's there to say how accurate it is, but it's a place to start.
  • qbrass 10y ago
    I'd be surprised if iron production required less fuel than bronze did. Seems like lack of tin may have been an issue keeping them from making bronze.
    • mikeash 10y ago
      Could be. Another possibility is that iron was found in other places where fuel was more abundant. I'm totally speculating though.