words of more than one syllable may be divided by the hyphen and the accentual mark in dissyllables and trisyllables where the accent is on the last syllable it is sufficiently indicated in the absence of the accentual mark showing that the accent is on no preceding syllablehe hyphen is sometimes used to separate the parts of a compound word as milk maid the mark of the makron as over the a in f small a breve te is to indicate the long sound of a vowel the mark of the breve as in f small a breve t f small i breve t is to indicate the short sound
Toward the end of the Neolithic Era, people began to use tools made from metal. Copper was the first metal used for tools. Eventually copper replaced stone, leading to the Copper Age. We will talk in class about an amazing early Copper Age discovery in the mountains near the Italian and Austrian border.
The term Neolithic or New Stone Age is most frequently used in connection with agriculture, which is the time when cereal cultivation and animal domestication was introduced. Because agriculture developed at different times in different regions of the world, there is no single date for the beginning of the Neolithic. In the Near East, agriculture was developed around 9,000 BCE, in Southeast Europe around 7,000 BCE, and later in other regions.