aneolithic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Eneolithic, Chalcolithic or Copper Age.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "… 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 ..."
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- "It appears to have reached the Japanese archipelago around the aneolithic Yayoi period, almost contemporaneous with the TB expansion in the continental Asia."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English neolithic English aneolithic From a- + neolithic.