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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris. This is episode 18, the Discovery of Metals. Oh, We are now going to enter the Calcolithic period. Calcolithic is made up from the Greek

words Calcos which means copper and Lith, which means copper, and lithic, which means stone.

We could also call this the copper age.

We do have a duty, however, to try to keep the technicalities of this podcast simple

and the simplest method for aging history would be to say that human history started with the Stone Age before making way

for the Bronze Age and then for the Iron Age. So where does the Copper age fit into this?

Traditionally we consider the calcalithic to be part of the stone Age, even though there is clearly a beginning for the

practical use of metal. Roughly we consider this age to cover the period from the earliest evidence of copper smelting from around 5,000

b.C. E.

During the previous podcasts we have discovered some of the human developments

which took place during the preceding Neolithic period which we can say started around 10,000 B.C.

We have seen that human tribes have become increasingly sedentary due to their reliance on agricultural methods

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