c. 5,400 BCE
Technology
Balkans
Copper smelting at Belovode
A Serbian Vinca site preserves the earliest secure evidence of extracting copper from ore.
Why it mattered
Turned metal from a rare curiosity into something that could be produced at will.
Stone Age
5,400 BCE
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