"Posterius ferri vis est aerisque reperta,
Sed prior aeris erat quam ferri cognitus usus."
[67] J. Déchelette points out that the term Copper "Age" is not justified for the greater part of Europe, as it suggests a demarcation which does not exist and also a more thorough chemical analysis of early metals than we possess. He prefers the term aeneolithic (aeneus, copper, λίθος, stone), coined by the Italians, to denote the period of transition, dating, according to Montelius, from about 2500 B.C. to 1900 B.C. Manuel d'Archéologie préhistorique, II. 1, Age du Bronze, 1910, pp. 99-100, 105.
[68] Eth., Chap. XIII.
[69] See G. Elliot Smith, The Ancient Egyptians, 1911, pp. 97-8.
[70] Paper on "The Transition from Pure Copper to Bronze," etc., read at the Meeting of the Brit. Assoc. Liverpool, 1896.
[71] Loc. cit. p. 3. But cf. H. R. Hall, The Ancient History of the Near East, 1912, pp. 33 and 90 n. 2.
[72] G. A. Reisner, The Early Cemeteries of Naga-ed-dêr (University of California Publications), 1908, and Report of the Archaeological Survey of Nubia, 1907-8.
[73] "Campagnes de 1907-8," Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1908, p. 373.
[74] Cf. J. Déchelette, Manuel d'Archéologie préhistorique, II. 1, Age du Bronze, 1910, pp. 53-4.
[75] Cf. L. W. King, A History of Sumer and Akkad, 1910, p. 26.