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Chalcolithic Eneolithic, Aeneolithic, or Copper Age
↑ Stone Age ↑ Neolithic
By region Africa (2600 BC–1600 AD) Naqada culture, Gerzeh culture, A-Group culture, C-Group culture, Kerma culture West Asia (6000–3500 BC) Ghassulian culture, Uruk period Europe (5500–2200 BC) Metallurgy during the Copper Age in Europe Vinča culture, Varna culture Cucuteni–Trypillia culture Yamna culture, Corded Ware Cernavodă culture, Decea Mureşului culture, Gorneşti culture, Gumelniţa–Karanovo culture, Petreşti culture, Coțofeni culture Remedello culture, Gaudo culture, Monte Claro culture Central Asia (3700–1700 BC) Botai culture, BMAC culture, Afanasevo culture South Asia (4300–1800 BC) Periodisation of the Indus Valley civilisation, Bhirrana culture, Hakra Ware culture, Kaytha culture, Ahar–Banas culture Savalda Culture, Malwa culture, Jorwe culture, Anarta tradition China (5000–2900 BC) Mesoamerica (6500–1000 BC)
Related topics Metallurgy, Wheel, Domestication of the horse
↓ Bronze Age ↓ Iron Age
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The European Chalcolithic, the Chalcolithic (also Eneolithic, Copper Age) period of Prehistoric Europe, lasted roughly from 5000 to 2000 BC, developing from the preceding Neolithic period and followed by the Bronze Age.

It was a period of Megalithic culture, the appearance of the first significant economic stratification, and probably the earliest presence of Indo-European speakers.

The economy of the Chalcolithic, even in the regions where copper was not yet used, was no longer that of peasant communities and tribes: some materials began to be produced in specific locations and distributed to wide regions. Mining of metal and stone was particularly developed in some areas, along with the processing of those materials into valuable goods.