What is the intermediate age between the Neolithic and Bronze Ages called?
Shucks! Beaten to it again. It’s called Chalcolithic, but sometimes people refer to the copper age.. During this transitional period people continued to use stone tools, but also made axes and daggers from copper. Eventually they learned that adding tin to the copper to make an alloy, bronze, made stronger tools and weapons which retained a sharper cutting edge for longer. I was in northern Italy earlier this summer and saw the tools belonging to the chalcolithic man whose body was found in the ice left by a melting glacier in the mountains on the present Italian-Austrian border. He had a stone bladed knife, scrapers and arrow heads, and a copper headed axe – a prestigious tool/weapon in those days.
