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aneolithic

aneolithic proper noun: the Eneolithic, Chalcolithic or Copper Age.

Proper noun

aneolithic

  1. The Eneolithic, Chalcolithic or Copper Age.
    • During our travels in Mesopotamia we also studied the similar pottery of the aneolithic age found at Abu Shahrein, Tell el-'Obeid and elsewhere in Babylonia, as well as at several sites in the East Tigris country and Assyria, from all of which we made collections which supplement the sherds from...1926 March, W.F. Albright, “25. Proto-Mesopotamian Painted Ware from the Balikh Valley”, in Man, volume 26
    • … the late Neolithic period (2000 BC to 1200 BC) is represented by a series of pottery consisting of card marked red, black, white and grey ware and the aneolithic period (1200 BC to 700 BC) is associated with grey and black pottery (Cheng Te-kun 1967: XIV) which has some similarity with the...2001 June, P. Krishna Mohan Reddy, “Maritime Trade of Early South India New Archaeological Evidences from Motupalli, Andhra Pradesh”, in East and West, volume 51, number 1/2

Origin of aneolithic

From a- + neolithic.

Questions about aneolithic

What does aneolithic mean?
Aneolithic means the Eneolithic, Chalcolithic or Copper Age.
What part of speech is aneolithic?
Aneolithic is a proper noun.

Words near aneolithic in the dictionary

  1. anenthemonean
  2. anenthemoneans
  3. anentropic
  4. anentropies
  5. anentropy
  6. aneolithic
  7. anephric
  8. anepigraph
  9. anepigraphic
  10. anepimeron
  11. anepisternum

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