Eneolithic

• Aeneolithic, aeneolithic, eneolithic, Æneolithic

Borrowed from Italian eneolitico, from Latin aeneus (“copper, bronze”).

Eneolithic (comparative more Eneolithic, superlative most Eneolithic)

1. (archaeology, paleontology) Describing the age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
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     Perhaps linguists have provided a step towards the right solution in presenting evidence from Indo-European kinship terminology that the Indo-Europeans were very much into exogamy, including taking the Eneolithic equivalent of mail-order brides from afar.

• Chalcolithic
• Cyprolithic

Eneolithic

1. (archaeology, paleontology) The age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

• Copper Age
• Chalcolithic Age

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