Emperor born later than origionally thought 1983BC

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**Carlovonsexron**

Time travel isn't a very in-universe type explanation for 40k - sure it happens when star ships go through the warp, but thats hardly the situation on Neolithic/Chalcolithic Terra.

if you need a hand wavy explanation akin to time travel why not just call it the Emperor's genius? Of course he has a bronze weapon - the most consistant trait about the Emperor's character is that he LOVES shiny military status symbols that are a tier above what anyone else could possibly attain.

**Slipspace**

nareik wrote:
Anachronism can also be explained away by time travel.

Alternatively bronze may have been invented earlier than current archaeology suggests. If the technology was lost shortly after it was discovered there would be little chance of finding evidence 10k years later.

Indeed, iron had many false starts. it was repeatedly discovered, but it was manufactured with inappropriate methods, such as casting instead of beating, so it didn't catch on.

Considering the false starts iron had it would be suprising for bronze not to suffer similar teething problems and have a few false starts before being lost again in preference for better understood technology.

That's a very good point. Our understanding of the progress of ancient technologies is based entirely on what we have been able to find and date. We have a pretty good idea of how technology must have progressed (bronze before iron, for example) but there's always the chance we're centuries out on when these were first developed.