A Copper Age between the Stone and Bronze Ages

Historians have defined a Copper Age between the ending of the NeoHthic Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age. For the Mediterranean region including Syria-Palestine the following scheme is adopted  

An early copper metallurgy developed when some craftsmen - who were surely considered to be in contact with the gods - acquired knowledge about what type of earth (containing a copper oxide mineral) should be mixed with charcoal to give the 

The metal could not really be used for tools and weapons. It could certainly be forged into knives and arrowheads, but it was too soft. Stone-Age man might see a copper sword as a curiosity and a symbol of a new time, but for hunting and fighting he relied on the good old flint tools. 

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