Definitions
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
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Examples
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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For her publication of The Chalcolithic Culture of the Golan (Jerusalem: 1998) she received the Irene Levi-Sala Prize of Ben Gurion University for books in the archaeology of Israel in June 2000.
Claire Epstein. 2009
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The marked regional character of the Chalcolithic culture in Israel is well known.
Claire Epstein. 2009
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Beginning in 1973/4 Epstein started excavating at Chalcolithic sites with the aid of numerous institutions, including the Antiquities and Museums Department, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Basic Research Foundation and the National Geographic Society.
Claire Epstein. 2009
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Twenty-five Chalcolithic sites were discovered and excavated in the central Golan.
Claire Epstein. 2009
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