Relating to the period immediately following the Neolithic age, characterized by the transitional cultural and technological developments between Neolithic and Bronze Age.
From Greek epi- (after, upon) + Neolithic (from neo- new + lith- stone). An archaeological term for post-Neolithic transition.
The Epineolithic is archaeology's awkward teenager phase—people weren't quite using bronze yet but had gotten bored with pure stone tools, so they started mixing techniques and materials.
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