Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, marked by the appearance of microlithic tools and weapons and by changes in the nature of settlements.
- noun The Mesolithic Period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In prehistoric archæol., relating to the period intermediate between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods: a term employed in the classification of postglacial deposits which contain human relics, or of such relics themselves, and referring to the relative character and degree of workmanship displayed therein. Contrasted with Eolithic, Paleolithic, and Neolithic.
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- adjective Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a
prehistoric period that lasted between 10,000 and 3,000BC . - noun Short for the Mesolithic period.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic)
- noun middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago
Etymologies
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Examples
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These Mesolithic cultures (Mesolithic, meaning Middle Stone Age, describes postIce Age European hunter-gatherers) achieved some degree of social complexity in Scandinavia, where richly decorated individuals were buried in cemeteries by 5500 B.C.E. These same cultures were the indigenous societies of Europe, farmers who first spread north and west across central Europe from the Balkans after 4500 B.C.E. 1
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I once developed a toothache while visiting Earth's Mesolithic age.
Fic: Like Gum on Your Shoe Part 3/10, Adult Eventually, AU from JE rabid1st 2009
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For that I've studied Mesolithic archaeology, as well as borrowing from the more recent past: from the survival strategies of traditional Inuit and Native American peoples, and many others.
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Curt is an authority on the Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the Balkans.
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Until the end of the Mesolithic era, the female may have been best known as a gatherer and forager, a gender which derived immense pleasure from the art of scavenging.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Until the end of the Mesolithic era, the female may have been best known as a gatherer and forager, a gender which derived immense pleasure from the art of scavenging.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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The valley is a rich repository of ancestral tribal art connected with the 14 painted rockart sites dated back to the Mesolithic and more recently Chalcolithic eras.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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