Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3k years ago (theregister.com)

"A group of researchers in Germany have shown that steel tools were being used in the Iberian peninsula at least as long ago as 900 BCE – far earlier than it was believed knowledge of the metal had made its way to the region."

Fascinating discovery here and a cool insight on the development of steel-based tools etc dating back far older than perhaps previously thought.