| 单词 | copper age |
| 释义 | > as lemmascopper age copper age n. Archaeology the prehistoric period during which weapons, etc., were made of copper. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > Copper Age copper age1881 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man ii. 11 It has been suggested that an age of copper must always have intervened between that of stone and bronze; but if so, the interval seems to have been short in Europe.] 1881 J. Evans Anc. Bronze Implem. i. 2 Of this Copper Age..there are in Europe but extremely feeble traces. 1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods iii. 56 There are features in the Copper Age Culture of Thrace which point to a survival there of the earlier culture traditions. 1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) iii. 35 Copper was already competing with stone and bone as an industrial material but without in the least replacing them. This ‘Copper Age’ culture, as Turkish archaeologists label it, is fairly uniform all over the plateau. < as lemmas |
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