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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the period of human culture preliminary to the Bronze Age, characterized by the use of copper and stone tools.
  • noun The Chalcolithic Period.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the bronze age, as the third of the four periods of man's development, namely, the paleolithic, the neolithic, the chalcolithic, and the iron.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek khalkos, copper + –lith + –ic.]

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