Meanings
- not comparableSynonym of Eneolithic.
The transitional period of raiding and warfare, which seems to have disrupted the life of villages in the Chalcolithic period, stimulated the growth of larger and larger defensive settlements.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161Synonyms: Eneolithic
- The Chalcolithic period; the age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
Such an economy spreads mobile pastoralist speech traditions not only by conquest but also as settled populations shift language in response to new incentives. To the nomads of the Chalcolithic, farmers could be useful allies.
2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 12
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of Eneolithic.
Origin
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