Chalcolithic
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- Synonym of Eneolithic
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:
- The transitional period of raiding and warfare, which seems to have disrupted the life of villages in the Chalcolithic period, stimulated the growth of larger and larger defensive settlements.