mesolithic

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I think I initially was going to write paleo/mesolithic but couldn't remember how to spell mesolithic.

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Quick take

Short for the Mesolithic period.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Short for the Mesolithic period.

adjective

Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mesolithic.

noun

Short for the Mesolithic period.

adjective

Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC.

Example sentences

I think I initially was going to write paleo/mesolithic but couldn't remember how to spell mesolithic.

Likewise, Brevik and the Aurora shooter killed 20x this, each; must mean that Norway and the US are stuck in the Mesolithic era.

For example, should people in Britain who can trace their ancestors to the Mesolithic gain this right too?

Heck, the place even casually boasts village remains dating all the way back to the mesolithic and the second oldest swamp in Japan.

There are some finds like Los Millares in the Eneolithic, but there isn't much left of mesolithic settlements apart from about a dozen examples.

Loads of Victorian ceramics, but also 1920s glass, 1980s ring pulls, Roman tiles, Mesolithic flint.

It was home to Mesolithic people just 8,200 years ago.

For example it seems Britain in the late mesolithic was inhabited by a short stocky people with dark skin, dark hair, and blue or grey eyes.

There's also mesolithic, inserted between those two, though I haven't heard it used much.

The UK wasn’t permanently settled until the mesolithic either.

There are so many mesolithic defaults in email software.

> The team determined that hunter-gatherers living during the Alpine Mesolithic period (ca.

Quote examples

"10000 year old lamp shows mesolithic man used quantum mechanics"

"..it may well have been the case that the Mesolithic peoples of Europe really did not want to switch to an agricultural economy, but at some point they would have had to switch as their own hunter-gatherer economy would have ceased to be viable as they lose more land to this encroaching advancement of arable agriculture."

Proper noun examples

The massive sequence of stratification layers suggests several millennia of activity, perhaps reaching back to the Mesolithic.

> The massive sequence of stratification layers suggests several millennia of activity, perhaps reaching back to the Mesolithic.

Mesolithic (although in this case it may also be Epipaleolithic - I'm not an expert, though) is the time period that happens just after Paleolithic, the one that was being talked about.