The Chalcolithic Age : When Metallurgy Came to Rule the World
The chalcolithic period refers to that part of old-world prehistory wedged between Neolithic, and the urban and literate societies of bronze age. This was the era when the first metal was found and it was nothing else but the copper and there was extensive use of mixture of stone and copper as stone increases strength it had been added to copper. The term Chalcolithic is a combination of two words- Chalco + Lithic was derived from the Greek words "khalkos" + "lĂthos" which means "copper" and "stone" or Copper Age. It is also known as the Eneolithic or Aneolithic (from Latin aeneus "of copper") is an archaeological period that is usually considered to be part of the broader Neolithic (although it was originally defined as a transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age). Copper age is associated with wide-spread Copper Metallurgy. Credits: https://www.alchemyias.com/ In India, it spanned around 2000 BC t