https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalc olithic >The archaeo

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>Serbs
>5000 BC

You forgot to read the rest:

>The Timna Valley contains evidence of copper mining in 7000–5000 BCE. The process of transition from Neolithic to Chalcolithic in the Middle East is characterized in archaeological stone tool assemblages by a decline in high quality raw material procurement and use. This dramatic shift is seen throughout the region, including the Tehran Valley, Iran. Here, analysis of six archaeological sites determined a marked downward trend in not only material quality, but also in aesthetic variation in the lithic artefacts. Fazeli et al. use these results as evidence of the loss of craft specialisation caused by increased use of copper tools.

>>2672152
>oldest known copper smelting occurs on a damn mountain in Serbia 7500 years ago, earlier than anyone remotely expected

seriously though

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>>2672140
Yet another great Sardinian accomplishment

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>>2672159
doesn't that mean they didn't find cooper tools, but rather just inferred that there were copper tools around because the stone tools they did find were shittier than they expected?

>securely dated
>Timna Valley, Negev Desert, Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timna_Valley#Copper_mining

>Copper has been mined in the area since the 5th or 6th millennium BCE

hmm the actual Timna Valley page says 5000-4000 BC

here's abstract from (13) that is the only citation in your section

>Preliminary investigation of lithic assemblages from six late prehistoric sites on the Tehran Plain provides numerous insights into the production, distribution, use and craft specialisation of flaked stone technology. The analyses include the study of the technological, morphological, petrological and wear characteristics of the assemblages to reconstruct the production sequence for manufacturing stone tools, to identify the kinds of raw material used and their sources, and to assess how selected tools were used. The results indicate that stone tool production was organised around a blade production system with some materials worked by craft specialists and others worked as part-time activities within the household economy. There is a regional division in the use of raw materials and a dramatic shift from use of good quality material during the Late Neolithic through to the Early Chalcolithic, to use of primarily poor quality local material and limited quantities of very high quality imported material during the Middle Chalcolithic. Finally, the analyses indicate that the collapse of lithic craft specialisation corresponds with an increase in the use of copper tools during the Middle Chalcolithic.

The Middle Chalcolithic was 4500-3500 BC anon, you fell for a vandal.

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>>2672140
BOG JE SRBIN!

>>2672242
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/timna

>Surveys and excavations in the Timna Valley were conducted between 1959 and 1990. From the surprising findings it is now possible to reconstruct the long and complex history of copper production there, from the Late Neolithic period to the Middle Ages. Mining activities in the Timna Valley reached a peak during the reign of the Pharaohs of the 14th-12th centuries BCE, when Egyptian mining expeditions, in collaboration with Midianites and local Amalekites, turned the Timna Valley into a large-scale copper industry.

Late Neolithic fits the 7000-5000 BC time period.

>>2672272
>The earliest, well-preserved copper smelting furnace dates from the 5th millennium BCE

ooooooooooooo anon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic

>a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world[2] and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

Late Neolithic is 5000 BC to 2000 BC apparently, though it's hard to find a solid definition for ""late" neolithic". And there's that 4500 number again.

7000 BC is wildly innacurate,.

>>2672322
It varies by region.

>Fertile Crescent
>Late PPNB (PPNB récent) between 7500 and 7000 BC

>>2672338
>Late PPNB

that's not late neolithic though, that's late pre-pottery neolithic B. But yeah it does vary, the jews who wrote that vitural library entry could certainly have been more specific.

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