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chalcolithic, a. Archæol.|kælkəʊˈlɪθɪk|
[f. chalco- + Gr. λίθος stone + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to a period of culture characterized by the concurrent use of stone and bronze implements. (Cf. aeneolithic a.)
1902Nature 6 Nov. Suppl. p. iii, The Neolithic vase-types..merge insensibly into those of the earliest dynastic period, which was ‘Chalcolithic’ in character. 1911J. L. Myres Dawn Hist. x. 224 A long chalcolithic..phase, in which good cheap stone and bad expensive bronze were in use concurrently. 1928V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iv. 98 All the elements that distinguish neolithic and chalcolithic culture..had been created in Egypt out of the common palæolithic heritage of south and north. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XIII. 404/2 The chalcolithic age passes imperceptibly into the early bronze, which covers approximately the 3rd millennium b.c. |