Chalcolithic
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The Chalcolithic was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in differen
Levant Chalcolithic male figurine, 4500–3500 BC
A painting of a Copper Age walled settlement, Los Millares, Spain
Bronze Age
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The Bronze Age is an archaeological and anthropological term defining a phase in the development of material culture among ancient societies in Asia, the Near East and Europe. An ancient civilisation
Chalcolithic
…Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in different areas, but was absent in some parts of the world, such as Russia, where there was no well-defined Copper…
One of the Alaca Höyük bronze standards from a pre-Hittite tomb dating to the 3rd millennium BC, from the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara
Hittite bronze tablet from Çorum-Boğazköy dating from 1235 BC, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara
Sphinx-lion of Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC)
Late 3rd-millennium BC silver cup from Marvdasht, Fars, with linear-Elamite inscription