aneolithic

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ neolithic.

Proper noun

aneolithic

1. The Eneolithic, Chalcolithic or Copper Age.
   • 1926 March, W.F. Albright, “25. Proto-Mesopotamian Painted Ware from the Balikh Valley”, in Man, volume 26:

     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 Tell el-'Obeid and Kerkufk now in the Baghdad Museum.

   • 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:

     … 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 Motupalli stamped ware ...

   • 2007 August, Shi-Zhu Gao, Yi-Dai Yang, Yue Xu, Quan-Chao Zhang, Hong Zhu, Hui Zhou, “Tracing the genetic history of the Chinese people: mitochondrial DNA analysis of aneolithic population from the Lajia site”, in American journal of Physical Anthropology, volume 133, number 4:

     (see title)

   • 2016 June, Osamu Kondo, Tomoya Aono, “Expansion of vertebral tuberculosis into Hokkaido: Implications for the population history of Ainu”, in Quaternary International, volume 405, number B:

     It appears to have reached the Japanese archipelago around the aneolithic Yayoi period, almost contemporaneous with the TB expansion in the continental Asia.