The Chalcolithic (/ˈkælkoʊˌlɪθɪk/ cal-co-LI-thik) (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing...
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The Chalcolithic (also Eneolithic, Copper Age) period of Prehistoric Europe lasted roughly from 5000 to 2000 BC, developing from the preceding Neolithic...
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Revolution (farming) Animal husbandry Pottery Metallurgy Wheel Circular ditches Henges Megaliths Neolithic religion Neolithic decline ↓ Chalcolithic v t e...
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Prehistory (section Chalcolithic)
there is also a transition period between Stone Age and Bronze Age, the Chalcolithic or Copper Age. For the prehistory of the Americas see Pre-Columbian era...
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Byblos (section Neolithic and Chalcolithic levels)
tools from the stratified Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in 1962. Remains of humans found in Chalcolithic burials have been published by Henri Victor...
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dated to 4569–4340 BCE by radiocarbon dating in 2006 and belong to the Chalcolithic Varna culture, which is the local variant of the KGKVI. There are crouched...
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world. It lasted in the Near East until the transitional period of the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) from about 6,500 years ago (4500 BC), marked by the development...
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oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans. Because of the presence of an arrowhead embedded...
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2000–500 BCE, many regions of the subcontinent transitioned from the Chalcolithic cultures to the Iron Age ones. The Vedas, the oldest scriptures associated...
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Ein el-Jarba (section Early Chalcolithic settlement)
remains dating to the Early Chalcolithic (6th millennium BC) and the Early Bronze Age IB (4th millennium BC). The Early Chalcolithic settlement is ascribed...
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the most intensively and extensively excavated and well reconstructed Chalcolithic sites of the Deccan plateau. The village is located around 89 kilometres...
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cultural horizon flourished at the transition from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic. During this period giant megalithic monuments, such as the Megalithic...
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35th century BC in the Near East sees the gradual transition from the Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Proto-writing enters transitional stage, developing...
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The Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi is a Ghassulian public building dating from about 3500 BCE. It lies on a scarp above the oasis of Ein Gedi, on the...
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Prehistoric Iberia (redirect from Chalcolithic Iberia)
Ages: Chalcolithic or Copper Age (c. 3.2 - 1.9 ka BC), Bronze Age (c. 1.9 ka - 750 BC) and Iron Age (c. 750 - 218 BC). Mesolithic and Chalcolithic are transition...
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Croatia, best presented at the Krapina site. Remnants of Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures were found in all regions. The largest proportion of sites is...
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Beersheba culture (redirect from Beersheban Chalcolithic)
The Beersheba culture is a Late Chalcolithic archaeological culture of the late 5th millennium BC (c. 4200–4000 BC), that was discovered in several sites...
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the Copper Age (or more technically the Chalcolithic or Eneolithic, both meaning 'copper–stone'). The Chalcolithic by convention is the initial period of...
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the Neolithic, with a transition period between the two known as the Chalcolithic. The final decades of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean basin are often...
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Megalith (section Chalcolithic)
period (although earlier Mesolithic examples are known) through the Chalcolithic period and into the Bronze Age. While "megalith" is often used to describe...
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Iberian Peninsula (section Chalcolithic)
ancestry being replaced by peoples with steppe-related ancestry. In the Chalcolithic (c. 3000 BCE), a series of complex cultures developed that would give...
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pastoralism developed in the Pontic–Caspian steppe beginning in the Chalcolithic. Remnants of these steppe civilizations were discovered in places such...
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The Euphrates (/juːˈfreɪtiːz/ yoo-FRAY-teez; see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with...
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Ghassulian (category Chalcolithic cultures of Asia)
a culture and an archaeological stage dating to the Middle and Late Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant (c. 4400 – c. 3500 BC). Its type-site,...
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archaeologists to a type of pottery found at settlements from the Spanish Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age such as the site of Los Millares. The pottery is...
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'En Esur (section Chalcolithic)
springs, one of which gives the site its name. A 7,000-year-old Early Chalcolithic large village already showing signs of incipient urbanisation and with...
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stretch back up to 10,000 years, following the discovery of a series of Chalcolithic period carved figures in the villages of Khoirokoitia and Lempa. The...
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floors, primitive weapons, and burial jars left by the Neolithic and Chalcolithic fishing communities who lived on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea over...
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Los Millares (category Chalcolithic cultures of Europe)
Los Millares is a Chalcolithic occupation site 17 km north of Almería, in the municipality of Santa Fe de Mondújar, Andalucía, Spain. The complex was in...
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