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  • Dr. Joseph Anderson compares these to "similar pebbles painted with a red pigment" which M. Piette found in the cavern of M.s d'Azil, of which the relics are, in part at least, palaeolithic, or "mesolithic," and of dateless antiquity.

    The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore Andrew Lang 1878

  • "The find is very interesting, because in the mesolithic period the people were nomadic hunter-gatherers, living in temporary camps – not at all given to building substantial structures like this," Milne said.

    7,000-year-old timbers found beneath MI6 Thames headquarters 2011

  • Celts began arriving in Ireland around 7,500 years ago, where they joined a few mesolithic and possibly late paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • As Robert Naylor argues, the weakness of this particular protectorate system was that the territory was occupied by scattered clusters of mesolithic Indians with no formal conception of territorial domain in the western sense.

    The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

  • I think Göbekli Tepe is called neolithic in the article because it it is dated in a part of our history where we have the transitional period between mesolithic and neolithic or Pre Pottery Neolithic as it is called in the article.

    The pot-belly of Göbekli Tepe is no place for a navel AYDIN 2008

  • Though neolithic people did also hunt and gather food, no mesolithic man oder woman was involved in things like animal husbandry or farming.

    The pot-belly of Göbekli Tepe is no place for a navel AYDIN 2008

  • In southern sweden many mesolithic dog burial grounds have been found, as dogs or "controlled wolves" came to have such a close and important relationship with humans.

    canis canem Bluestocking 2007

  • Portland itself is an historic place -inhabited since mesolithic times; it was settled by the Romans, and has been a royal manor since before the Conquest.

    languagehat.com: (H)OPE. 2005

  • Other, slighly older, marine mesolithic basketweavers apply, and tick the Senior Lecturer box.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • Many keen young marine mesolithic basketweavers fresh out of grad school apply, and tick the Lecturer box.

    Wired Campus 2010

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