Although the peoples of Anatolia and West Asia smelted iron during this period, the iron manufacture of ancient India and Pakistan was a separate development unrelated to activities in the west.

• 安纳托力亚和西亚的民族也在这时期熔铁，但古印度、古巴基斯坦的制铁技术是当地独自发展出来的，与西方无关。