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<!--<div style="float:left;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:VREOMG logo.png|170px]]</div>-->The '''Cuprulithic Age''', also known as the '''Copper Age''' or simply as the '''Cuprulithic''', is the period of time between the [[Novalithic Age]] and the [[Ancient Era]]. It is originally regarded by scholars as a transitional period between the Novalithic and the Bronze Age and where early copper metallurgy appeared in [[Plevapotamia]]. However, because it is characterized by the use of metals, the Copper Age is considered a part of the Bronze Age rather than the Novalithic Age while simultaneously a part of the [[Prehistorical Era]].  
<div style="float:left;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:Isthylon.png|170px]]</div>'''Isthylon''' is the 3rd planet from the [[Sun (Gentu)|Sun]] and also the 3rd smallest planet in the [[Gentu System]]. Its orbit around the Sun takes roughly 26 [[Gentu]] days, the X longest of all the Sun's planets. Isthylon's surface appears heavily cratered and is similar in appearance to [[Cynthia]]'s, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Having almost no atmosphere to retain heat, it has surface temperatures that vary diurnally, ranging from −163 °C (−261.4 °F) at night to 22 °C (71.6 °F) during the day across the equatorial regions. The polar regions are constantly below −104 °C (−155.2 °F). The planet has no known natural satellites.


In the Cuprulithic, {{wp|copper}} predominated in metalworking technology. Hence it was the period before it was discovered that by adding tin to copper one could create bronze, a metal alloy harder and stronger than either component.
Three spacecrafts have visited Isthylon: ''[[Enquêteur 4]]'' flew by in 1976 and 1977; ''[[Trouverbot V2]]'', launched in 1988, orbited Isthylon over 5,000 times in five years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on 24 Tebax 1997. and ''[[IATAI]]'', which flew by it in 1998. The ''[[Sidai 7]]'' spacecraft is planned to arrive at Isthylon in 2005. ('''[[Isthylon|See more...]]''')
 
An archaeological site in XXX contains the oldest securely dated evidence of copper making at high temperature, from 7,500 years ago. The find in XXX extends the known record of copper smelting by about 800 years, and suggests that copper smelting may have been invented independently in separate parts of Hesterath, North Domica, and Naphtora at that time, rather than spreading from a single source. The process of transition from Novalithic to Cuprulithic in the XXX is characterized in archaeological stone tool assemblages by a decline in high quality raw material procurement and use. ('''[[Cuprulithic Age|See more...]]''')

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Isthylon is the 3rd planet from the Sun and also the 3rd smallest planet in the Gentu System. Its orbit around the Sun takes roughly 26 Gentu days, the X longest of all the Sun's planets. Isthylon's surface appears heavily cratered and is similar in appearance to Cynthia's, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Having almost no atmosphere to retain heat, it has surface temperatures that vary diurnally, ranging from −163 °C (−261.4 °F) at night to 22 °C (71.6 °F) during the day across the equatorial regions. The polar regions are constantly below −104 °C (−155.2 °F). The planet has no known natural satellites.

Three spacecrafts have visited Isthylon: Enquêteur 4 flew by in 1976 and 1977; Trouverbot V2, launched in 1988, orbited Isthylon over 5,000 times in five years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on 24 Tebax 1997. and IATAI, which flew by it in 1998. The Sidai 7 spacecraft is planned to arrive at Isthylon in 2005. (See more...)

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