en.unionpedia.org

Chalcolithic Europe, the Glossary

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.^[1]

66 relations: Almería, Aquitaine, Archery, Arsenic, Artenacian culture, Ötzi, Baden culture, Beehive tomb, Bell Beaker culture, Bodrogkeresztúr culture, Boian culture, Bronze Age Europe, Bulgaria, Burned house horizon, Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro, Catacomb culture, Cernavodă culture, Chalcolithic, Chasséen culture, Ciempozuelos, Coțofeni culture, Corded Ware culture, Crete, Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, Cycladic culture, Czech Republic, Danubian culture, Dnieper–Donets culture, Dordogne, Estremadura Province (historical), Ezero culture, Flint, Funnelbeaker culture, Globular Amphora culture, Iberian Peninsula, Indo-European languages, Iranian peoples, Kurgan hypothesis, Lengyel culture, Little owl, Ljubljana Marshes Wheel, Long-eared owl, Los Millares, Maidanetske, Megalith, Metallurgy during the Copper Age in Europe, Michelsberg culture, Mining, Minoan civilization, Neolithic Europe, ... Expand index (16 more) »
Copper Age Europe
Prehistoric Europe

Almería

Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Almería

Aquitaine

Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Aquitaine

Archery

Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Archery

Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and the atomic number 33.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Arsenic

Artenacian culture

Artenacian culture, named after the archaeological site of Artenac in Charente, appeared in the Late Chalcolithic, c. 2400 BC, apparently as reaction to migrations of Danubian peoples into Western France.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Artenacian culture

Ötzi

Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Chalcolithic Europe and Ötzi are copper Age Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Ötzi

Baden culture

The Baden culture or Baden-Pécel culture is a Chalcolithic archaeological culture dating to 3520–2690 BC.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Baden culture

Beehive tomb

A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek θολωτός τάφος, θολωτοί τάφοι, "domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Beehive tomb

Bell Beaker culture

The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Bell Beaker culture

Bodrogkeresztúr culture

The Bodrogkeresztúr culture was a middle Copper Age culture which flourished in the Carpathian Basin, in the territory of present-day Hungary and Romania from 4000 to 3600 BC.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Bodrogkeresztúr culture

Boian culture

The Boian culture (dated to 4300–3500 BC), also known as the Giulești–Marița culture or Marița culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Boian culture

Bronze Age Europe

The European Bronze Age is characterized by bronze artifacts and the use of bronze implements.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Bronze Age Europe

Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Bulgaria

Burned house horizon

In the archaeology of Neolithic Europe, the burned house horizon is the geographical extent of the phenomenon of presumably intentionally burned settlements. Chalcolithic Europe and burned house horizon are copper Age Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Burned house horizon

Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro

The Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro is a Chalcolithic archaeological site in the civil parish of Vila Nova de São Pedro, municipality of Azambuja, in the Portuguese Estremadura area of Lezíria do Tejo.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro

Catacomb culture

The Catacomb culture (Katakombnaya kul'tura, Katakombna kul'tura) was a Bronze Age culture which flourished on the Pontic steppe in 2,500–1,950 BC.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Catacomb culture

Cernavodă culture

The Cernavodă culture, ca.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Cernavodă culture

Chalcolithic

The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Chalcolithic

Chasséen culture

Chasséen culture is the name given to the archaeological culture of prehistoric France of the late Neolithic, which dates to roughly between 4500 BC and 3500 BC.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Chasséen culture

Ciempozuelos

Ciempozuelos is a municipality in Spain located in the Community of Madrid.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Ciempozuelos

Coțofeni culture

The Coţofeni culture (Kocofeni), also known as the Baden-Coţofeni culture, and generally associated with the Usatove culture, was an Early Bronze Age archaeological culture that existed between 3500 and 2500 BC in the mid-Danube area of south-eastern Central Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Coțofeni culture

Corded Ware culture

The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between – 2350 BC, thus from the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Corded Ware culture

Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Crete

Cucuteni–Trypillia culture

The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, also known as the Cucuteni culture, Trypillia culture or Tripolye culture is a Neolithic–Chalcolithic archaeological culture (5500 to 2750 BC) of Southeast Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Cucuteni–Trypillia culture

Cycladic culture

Cycladic culture (also known as Cycladic civilisation or, chronologically, as Cycladic chronology) was a Bronze Age culture (c. 3100–c. 1000 BC) found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Cycladic culture

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Czech Republic

Danubian culture

The term Danubian culture was coined by the Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe to describe the first agrarian society in Central Europe and Eastern Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Danubian culture

Dnieper–Donets culture

The Dnieper–Donets culture complex (DDCC) (ca. 5th—4th millennium BC) is a Mesolithic and later Neolithic archaeological culture found north of the Black Sea and dating to ca.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Dnieper–Donets culture

Dordogne

Dordogne (or;; Dordonha) is a large rural department in south west France, with its prefecture in Périgueux.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Dordogne

Estremadura Province (historical)

Estremadura Province (Portuguese pronunciation: (ɨ)ʃtɾɨmɐˈðuɾɐ) is one of the six historical provinces of Portugal.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Estremadura Province (historical)

Ezero culture

The Ezero culture, 3300—2700 BC, was a Bronze Age archaeological culture occupying most of present-day Bulgaria.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Ezero culture

Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Flint

Funnelbeaker culture

The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Trechterbekercultuur; Tragtbægerkultur), was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Funnelbeaker culture

Globular Amphora culture

The Globular Amphora culture (GAC, (KAK); c. 3400–2800 BC, is an archaeological culture in Central Europe. Marija Gimbutas assumed an Indo-European origin, though this is contradicted by newer genetic studies that show a connection to the earlier wave of Early European Farmers rather than to Western Steppe Herders from the Ukrainian and south-western Russian steppes.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Globular Amphora culture

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Iberian Peninsula

Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Indo-European languages

Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Iranian peoples

Kurgan hypothesis

The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe and parts of Asia.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Kurgan hypothesis

Lengyel culture

The Lengyel culture is an archaeological culture of the European Neolithic, centered on the Middle Danube in Central Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Lengyel culture

Little owl

The little owl (Athene noctua), also known as the owl of Athena or owl of Minerva, is a bird that inhabits much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, the Palearctic east to Korea, and North Africa.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Little owl

Ljubljana Marshes Wheel

The Ljubljana Marshes Wheel is a wooden wheel that was found in the Ljubljana Marsh some south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, in 2002. Chalcolithic Europe and Ljubljana Marshes Wheel are copper Age Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Ljubljana Marshes Wheel

Long-eared owl

The long-eared owl (Asio otus), also known as the northern long-eared owlOlsen, P.D. & Marks, J.S. (2019).

See Chalcolithic Europe and Long-eared owl

Los Millares

Los Millares is a Chalcolithic occupation site 17 km north of Almería, in the municipality of Santa Fe de Mondújar, Andalucía, Spain.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Los Millares

Maidanetske

Maidanetske (Майдане́цьке) is a village located within the Zvenyhorodka Raion (district) of the Cherkasy Oblast (province), about driving distance south of Kyiv.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Maidanetske

Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Megalith

The Copper Age, also called the Eneolithic or the Chalcolithic Age, has been traditionally understood as a transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, in which a gradual introduction of the metal (native copper) took place, while stone was still the main resource utilized. Chalcolithic Europe and Metallurgy during the Copper Age in Europe are copper Age Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Metallurgy during the Copper Age in Europe

Michelsberg culture

The Michelsberg culture (Michelsberger Kultur (MK)) is an important Neolithic culture in Central Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Michelsberg culture

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Mining

Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Minoan civilization

Neolithic Europe

The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until –1700 BC (the beginning of Bronze Age Europe with the Nordic Bronze Age). Chalcolithic Europe and Neolithic Europe are prehistoric Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Neolithic Europe

Old Europe (archaeology)

Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in the Lower Danube Valley.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Old Europe (archaeology)

Owl

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Owl

Pontic–Caspian steppe

The Pontic–Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Pontic–Caspian steppe

Prehistoric Europe

Prehistoric Europe refers to Europe before the start of written records, beginning in the Lower Paleolithic.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Prehistoric Europe

Rössen culture

The Rössen culture or Roessen culture (Rössener Kultur) is a Central European culture of the middle Neolithic (4,600–4,300 BC).

See Chalcolithic Europe and Rössen culture

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Romania

Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Sandstone

Southeast Europe

Southeast Europe or Southeastern Europe (SEE) is a geographical sub-region of Europe, consisting primarily of the region of the Balkans, as well as adjacent regions and archipelagos.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Southeast Europe

Sredny Stog culture

The Sredny Stog culture or Serednii Stih culture is a pre-Kurgan archaeological culture from the 5th–4th millennia BC.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Sredny Stog culture

Super culture

A super culture is a collection of cultures and/or subcultures, that interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a degree of sense of unity.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Super culture

Troy

Troy (translit; Trōia; 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭|translit.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Troy

Varna culture

The Varna culture was a Chalcolithic culture of northeastern Bulgaria, dated, contemporary and closely related with the Gumelnița culture.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Varna culture

Vinča culture

The Vinča culture (ʋîːntʃa), also known as Turdaș culture, Turdaș–Vinča culture or Vinča-Turdaș culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe, dated to the period 5400–4500 BC.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Vinča culture

Vučedol culture

The Vučedol culture (Вучедолска култура) flourished between 3000 and 2200 BC (the Eneolithic period of earliest copper-smithing), centered in Syrmia and eastern Slavonia on the right bank of the Danube river, but possibly spreading throughout the Pannonian plain and western Balkans and southward.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Vučedol culture

Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia (lit,; Old Romanian: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рꙋмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).

See Chalcolithic Europe and Wallachia

Yamnaya culture

The Yamnaya culture or the Yamna culture, also known as the Pit Grave culture or Ochre Grave culture, is a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers (the Pontic–Caspian steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BCE.

See Chalcolithic Europe and Yamnaya culture

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcolithic_Europe

Also known as Copper Age Europe, European Chalcolithic.

, Old Europe (archaeology), Owl, Pontic–Caspian steppe, Prehistoric Europe, Rössen culture, Romania, Sandstone, Southeast Europe, Sredny Stog culture, Super culture, Troy, Varna culture, Vinča culture, Vučedol culture, Wallachia, Yamnaya culture.

Chalcolithic Europe, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Copper Age Europe

Prehistoric Europe

References