Ok, so something not necessarily tied to the present time?
Something like: “The ancient Egyptians used copper chisels, as that was the best metal available at the time.” In that sense, you could say that those two things were indeed contemporaneous, because they occurred at the same time with one another.
Ok, so something not necessarily tied to the present time?
Something like: “The ancient Egyptians used copper chisels, as that was the best metal available at the time.” In that sense, you could say that those two things were indeed contemporaneous, because they occurred at the same time with one another.
Maybe one of those, contemporaneously seems to encapsulate “best metal as/per what was currently/then available”