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.
DEFINITION: The early part of the Neolithic period in Western Asia before the widespread use of pottery (c. 8500-6000 BC) in an economy based on the cultivation of crops or the rearing of animals or both.