Bronze Alloy in the B.C. world:

Many people refer to bronze as a pure metal, but the bronze used today for bronze plaques, artwork and sculpture is actually a mixture that was developed thousands of years ago. Bronze itself is a mixture of copper and zinc, but before 4,000 B.C., artisans had worked with pure copper. With the addition of a small amount of tin equalling about 3 percent of the mixture, the new alloy of Bronze is a much stronger metal.

Bronze Replaces Other Artisitic Mediums:

Ancient artisans were quick to adopt the innovative metalurgy and the new bronzing process grew to be so widespread that it launched a new era called the Bronze Age which is considered to be about 3500-1200 B.C.
The alloy of copper and tin began to invade upon other artisan mediums used by woodworking and stone masonry and soon became recognized as the preferred choice of mediums for objects that needed to be both strong, beautiful, and lasting.

Early Historic Adopters of Bronze Metalurgy:

The new metal process for bronze quickly became popular around the globe and early cultures were transformed. Greece, Egypt and China became the first casting solid, functional objects and were the earliest of adopters, finding innovative ways to use bronze alloy

It soon became evident that the bronze metal could be used for a wide array of purposes and its popularity quickly spread to other cultures and even more distant lands. Today, Bronze is used in many forms, from the traditional to the highly innovate, from both a commercial perspective to the private one.

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