Copper Age Copper Age Afanasevo culture, 3500—2500 BC, an archaeological culture of the late copper and early bronze age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afanasevo culture"
Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without accent marks -- Çatal is Turkish for 'fork' and Höyük is Turkish for "mound") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, dating from around 7500 BC for the lowest layers. It is perhaps the largest and most sophisticated Neolithic site yet uncovered. ...more on Wikipedia about "Çatalhöyük"
Cernavoda culture, ca. 4000— 3200 BC, a late copper age archaeological culture of the lower Bug River and Danube located along the coast of the Black Sea and somewhat inland. It is named after the Romanian town of Cernavodă. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cernavoda culture"
The Chalcolithic (Greek khalkos + lithos ' copper stone') period, also known as the Eneolithic (Aeneolithic) or Copper Age period, is a phase in the development of human culture in which the use of early metal tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools. ...more on Wikipedia about "Copper Age"
The Corded Ware culture, Battle Axe culture or Single Grave culture is an enormous European archaeological horizon that begins in the late Neolithic ( stone age), flourishes through the copper age and finally culminates in the early bronze age, developing in various areas from ca. 3200 BC/ 2900 BC to ca. 2300 BC/ 1800 BC. With the Yamna culture, it represents the introduction of metal into Northern Europe, and the earliest expansion of the Indo-European family of languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corded Ware culture"
The Khvalynsk culture was an Eneolithic (copper age) culture of the first half of the 5th millennium BC, discovered at Khvalynsk on the Volga in Saratov Oblast, Russia. The culture also is termed the Middle Eneolithic or Developed Eneolithic or Proto-kurgan. It was preceded by the Early Eneolithic or Samara culture, from which it came, and succeeded by the Late Eneolithic, or Early Yamna culture, to which it descended. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khvalynsk culture"
The Kura-Araxes culture sometimes known also as the Early Transcaucasian culture was a important Chalcolithic (copper-stone age) and bronze age culture that flourished in the Caucasus, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran from about 4000 B.C. to 2200 B.C. after which they were presumably overrun and absorbed by the Hurrians, who according to some swept down from the north Caucasus around 2200 BC. This is all quite unknown from any classical historic records, their name (given by modern archaeologists) comes from the Kura and Araxes river valleys where they developed. The territory they inhabited is located in modern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kura-Araxes culture"
The Liaoning bronze dagger culture is an archeological complex of the late Bronze Age in Northeast Asia. Artifacts from the culture are found primarily in the Liaoning area of Manchuria and in the Korean peninsula. Various other bronze artifacts, including ornaments and weapons, are associated with the culture, but the daggers are viewed as the most characteristic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Liaoning bronze dagger culture"
Los Millares is the name of a Chalcolithic occupation site 17km outside Almería in Andalusia, Spain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Los Millares"
Lower Mikhaylovka group, 3600—3000 BC, a late copper age archaeological culture of the lower Dneiper River immediately underlying remains of the successor Yamna culture site named Mikhaylovka I, noted for is fortifications. It is related to the Kemi Oba culture and seems to have connections to the Maykop culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lower Mikhaylovka group"
Ötzi the Iceman (also spelled Oetzi and known also as Frozen Fritz) is the modern nickname of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier of the Ötztal Alps, near the border between Austria and Italy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ötzi the Iceman"
Pollen zones are a system of subdividing late Pleistocene and early Holocene paleoclimate using the data from pollen cores. The sequence provides a global chronological structure to a wide variety of scientists, such as geologists, climatologisists, geographists and archaeologists, who study the physical and cultural environment of the last 15,000 years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pollen zone"
The Qijia culture (齊家文化) ( 2400 BC - 1900 BC) was an early Bronze Age culture distributed around the upper Yellow River region of western Gansu and eastern Qinghai, China. Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered the initial site at Qijiaping (齊家坪) in 1923. During the late stages of the culture, the Qijia culture retreated from the west and suffered a reduction in population size. Qijia culture produced some of the earliest bronze and copper mirrors found in China. Extensive domestication of horses are found at many Qijia sites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Qijia culture"
Rudna Glava, is a site in present-day eastern Serbia that demonstrates early (and perhaps the earliest) evidence of European copper mining and metallurgy, ca. 5th millennium BC. Shafts were cut into the hillside, with scaffolding constructed for easy access to the veins of ore. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rudna Glava"
The Samara culture was an aeneolithic or eneolithic ( copper age) culture of the early 5th millennium BC at the Samara bend region of the middle Volga, discovered during archaeological excavations near the village of Syezzheye (Съезжее) in Russia. The valley of the Samara river contains sites from subsequent cultures as well, which are descriptively termed "Samara cultures" or "Samara valley cultures". Some of these sites are currently under excavation. "The Samara culture" as a proper name, however, is reserved for the early Eneolithic of the region. ...more on Wikipedia about "Samara culture"
The Seine-Oise-Marne or SOM culture is the name given by archaeologists to the final culture of the Neolithic and first culture of the Chalcolithic in northern France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seine-Oise-Marne culture"
Symbolkeramik is a name given by archaeologists to a type of pottery found at settlements from the Spanish Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age such as the site of Los Millares. ...more on Wikipedia about "Symbolkeramik"
Terramare or Terramara is the name given by archaeologists to culture mainly of the early bronze age, but stretching back into the later stone age, c 1500-1100 BC. As Mallory puts it, it "takes its name from the black earth, (terremare) residue of settlement mounds which have long served the fertilizing needs of local farmers." ...more on Wikipedia about "Terramare culture"
Usatovo culture, 3500—3000 BC, an archaeological culture facing the Black sea between the mouths of the Bug River and the Danube in present-day Romania. ...more on Wikipedia about "Usatovo culture"
The Vučedol culture was an Indo-European culture from 4000 to 3000 BC ( eneolithic), centered in eastern Slavonia on the right bank of the Danube river, but possibly spreading throughout the Pannonian plain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vučedol culture"
The Yamna (from Russian яма "pit") or Pit Grave or Ochre Grave culture is a late copper age/early bronze age culture of the Bug/ Dniester/ Ural region, dating to the 36th– 23rd centuries BC. The culture was predominantly nomadic, with some agriculture practiced near rivers and a few hillforts. Domestication of the horse, cattle, sheep and goat, use of plough and carts is attested. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamna culture" You are visiting shortopedia Copper_Age
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