Hand tools built to forge, hold or shape hot or cold metal, the implement set behind this atlas's Metal craft subcategory. Belongs here: the anvil, the hard working surface a smith hammers metal against, and blacksmith's tongs, used to hold hot metal safely. Does not belong here: fine metal and stone tools used at jewelry scale, which this atlas does not yet track as separate tool entities.
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The Hittites of Anatolia first discovered or developed the smelting of iron ores around 1500 BC.
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