European Copper Age started 2000 years earlier than previously thought

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The Chalcolithic (Copper Age) was thought to have started 6000 years ago in Europe. Recent excavations have now proved that it started (at least) some 8000 years ago in the Balkans.

So far, it was thought that the Copper Age started independently around 4000 BCE in Europe, India. Persia and North America. These finds would suggest that metallurgy started in Europe well before other parts of the world (until other finds disprove it).

Euronews : Copper chisel indicates metallurgy began earlier than previously thought

Euronews said:
Archaeologists working on the Plocnik site, in southern Serbia close to Kosovo have come across a stone age dwelling. During excavations the team uncovered part of a house dating back to the sixth millennium BC. Archeologists found a copper chisel, proof that the age of metal began earlier than previously thought in the Vinča culture, an early European civilization which lined the Danube in Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia.

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I forgot about this post from 2007. I now realise that if these dates are correct, the Copper Age would coincide with the Neolithic (spread of agriculture, domesticated animals and pottery) in Europe. That's a good reason not to refer to the European Copper Age, but just to the "Neolithic package".
 

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