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Preferred term
Copper Age
Definition
- The Copper Age, or Chalcolithic time period, generally refers to circa5000 BCE to 2000 BCE. This typology was initiated by Dane Christian Jurgensen Thomsen in 1807 as a three-age system of classifying human prehistory based on toolmaking technologies (i.e., Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age). These categories were later refined by John Lubbock in 1865. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Copper Age]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Copper_Age
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