Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by general era]
5. three-age system
6. transitional periods Stone Age to Bronze Age
7. Chalcolithic

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the last phase of the Chalcolithic period and culture, when stone tools were still used, though copper was used more often than in Middle Chalcolithic, and it was occasionally used in an alloy. Stone tools of this phase were sometimes fashioned to imitate copper tools.