The period of human culture preliminary to the Bronze Age, characterized by the use of copper and stone tools. The Chalcolithic Period is generally recognized only for Europe and central and western Asia.
Also called Copper and Stone Age
See Note at Three Age system
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The Chalcolithic represented a transitional time in the region’s history.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
Typically, males from this Chalcolithic society were interred laying on their right side facing east while women were placed on their left side facing west.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2012
In Mesopotamia the fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates, the Chalcolithic people were building the first large city-states -- Uruk, Ur and Eridu Larsa -- in what is now southern Iraq.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chalcolithic smiths had determined that naturally occurring arsenic-laced copper was shinier and easier to work than the unalloyed metal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The periods into which the archaeological history of Syria should be divided are roughly, as follows: I. Neolithic and Chalcolithic Age, to about 2000 B.C.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
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