Chalcolithique
-4000 to -2000 The name Chalcolithique was forged by the prehistorians starting from the Greek roots khalkos (Cuivre) and lithographies (stone). Thus, the chalcolithique one indicates the “period when a Outillage mainly out of stone can be supplemented by objects out of copper”, which is characteristic, in Archéologie, certain cultures having existed at the end of the Neolithic or at the beginning of the Bronze Age (towards -2300 with -1800 in Western Europe).
Sometimes used in a chronological direction, the chalcolithique one then indicates improbable “a age of the copper”, which contradicts formally the juxtaposition of chalcolithic contemporary cultures, Neolithic and of old bronze on nearby territories, in particular in France. The Italian archeologists prefer as for them to indicate the equivalent under the name of “eneolithic”.
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