Copper age

Chalcolithic Eneolithic, Aeneolithic or Copper Age This box:
↑ Stone Age ↑ Neolithic
Near East Ghassulian culture, Naqada culture, Uruk period Europe Yamna culture, Corded Ware Cernavodă culture, Decea Mureşului culture, Gorneşti culture, Gumelniţa–Karanovo culture, Petreşti culture, Coțofeni culture Remedello culture, Gaudo culture, Monte Claro culture Central Asia Yamna culture, Botai culture, BMAC culture, Afanasevo culture South Asia Periodisation of the Indus Valley Civilisation, Bhirrana culture, Hakra Ware culture, Kaytha culture, Ahar-Banas culture Savalda Culture, Jorwe culture, Inamgoan culture China Mesoamerica
Metallurgy, Wheel, Domestication of the horse,
↓ Bronze Age

Near East

Europe

Central Asia

South Asia

China

Mesoamerica

Metallurgy, Wheel,
Domestication of the horse,

The Chalcolithic (English /ˌkælkəˈlɪθᵻk/;Greek: χαλκός khalkós, "copper" and λίθος líthos, "stone") or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic or Aeneolithic (from Latin "of copper"), was a period in the development of human technology, preceding the Bronze Age, before it was discovered that adding tin to copper formed the harder bronze. The Copper Age was originally defined as a transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

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