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Take care on what you think is meant by civilization. It's quite obvious, but we all nose who is going to attack this.

Take care on what you think is meant by civilization. It's quite obvious, but we all nose who is going to attack this.

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>Otzi the iceman was also found with a lot of arsenic on his skin, leading to speculation he might have been a copper worker.

Yeah, Austria was a big copper center as well.

>I suspect pottery might have been the key preceeding technology which leads on to metallurgy.

Makes the most sense. Pottery kilns are pretty close to a casting furnace or forge, and refractories are ceramic. Ancient Chinese were excellent potters and bronze casters, as were the Greeks.

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And anatolia/mesopotamia too. They built their whole civilisation on ceramics.

Ok, I feel pretty comfortable calling that the critical development step. The chinese either discovered bronze or were introduced to it and grabbed it with both hands because they already had an advanced pottery culture and were used to working with high temperatures.