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	Mesolithic Age in Anatolia and Asia Minor
		Mesolithic Age is a period of transition from Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age.
		When climatic conditions began to change in the Mesolithic period, animals and humans were forced to adopt themselves to new environment and conditions.
		Domestication of Animals is the main development of this period; the Dog was domesticated during the Mesolithic Age.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/mesolithic.htm (302 words)

	Mesolithic period on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It occurs in the middle of the Mesolithic period.
		The Mesolithic period in other areas is represented by the Natufian in the Middle East, the Badarian and Gerzean in Egypt, and the Capsian in N Africa.
		The Lepenski Vir conundrum: reinterpretation of the Mesolithic and Neolithic sequences in the Danube Gorges.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mesolith.asp (760 words)

	The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter V: Mesolithic in Eurasia
		Hunting in the Mesolithic is similar to hunting in the Paleolithic although microlithization is greater in the Mesolithic as is the use of flint.
		The Mesolithic is a period of agriculture and domestication of animals.
		Mesolithic art in contrast is monotonous, is schematic; no realistic figures are present and only the color red is used.
	www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/ChapterV.html (2263 words)

	Mesolithic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the 'Middle Stone Age') was a period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age.
		In some areas, such as the Near East farming was already in use by the end of the Pleistocene and there the Mesolithic is short and poorly defined.
		The mesolithic is characterized by small composite flint tools (microliths and microburins) in most areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mesolithic (291 words)

	The Neolithic of the Levant (Excerpt 209)
		Mesolithic 1 had coincided with a long phase of cold, dry climate during which the steppe had expanded at the expense of the Mediterranean forest.
		Mesolithic 1 was coeval with the last severe cold phase of the Pleistocene while Mesolithic 2 coincided with a period of greatly improved environment.
		I have suggested that the environmental improvement which began late in Mesolithic 1 was the principal cause of the rise in population in Mesolithic 2 and subsequent developments in economy.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /209.html (5184 words)

	Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The period between the end of the Upper Palaeolithic and the beginning of the new Stone Age (Neolithic) is called Mesolithic.
		Maybe, this period is poorly studied yet, maybe the depictions, made in the open air, not in caves, were washed away with snow and rains, maybe, among the petroglyphs, very difficult to be dated, there are some, referred to that period but we can't recognize them.
		Only few less dubious Mesolithic depictions can be mentioned: Kamennaya Mogila at the Ukraine, Gobustan in Azerbaidzhan, Zaraut-Kamar in Uzbekistan, Shakhty in Tadzhikistan and Bhimbetka in India.
	vm.kemsu.ru /en/mezolith (185 words)

	Searching for the First Settlers of Orkney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mesolithic sites often comprise only a handful of stone flakes (illus 3) together with some charcoal and a few discolorations in the soil (illus 4).
		From the 1950s onwards, however, the Mesolithic of Orkney gradually dropped out of view until it was ignored (Lacaille 1954): largely due to the upsurge in Neolithic archaeology, which went from strength to strength, no doubt based on the phenomenal upstanding remains.
		The Mesolithic sites that are known in Orkney lie mainly in the lower areas that are farmed today, but this is largely a reflection of the way in which they have been found (Wickham-Jones and Firth 2000).
	www.orkneydigs.org.uk /dhl/PAPERS/cwj (4197 words)

	The Most Ancient Populations of Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the early Mesolithic period, things were manufactured of bone in a method that was completely identical to that used by Maglemosian people in Denmark at the same time (Oshibkina 1983).
		That could mean that during the Mesolithic period, an anthropologically similar group of peoples lived from the Netherlands in the West to the Middle Russian highlands to the East.
		For this reason, during the Mesolithic and Neolithic period, people in the Baltic region (and surrounding regions) had broad faces, a fact which affirms their links to the late Paleolithic populations of Europe.
	vip.latnet.lv /hss/denisova.htm (4204 words)

	Mesolithic - Vela Spila (Vela Luka - island Korcula)
		The burials belong to the younger Mesolithic stage.
		With regard to their chronological position, we may mention that the charcoal, which was recovered from 80 or more centimeters directly above the burials, from the base of the Early Neolithic accumulation, was dated to 6150 BC, which corresponds very well to the very beginning of the Early Neolithic.
		Major physical differences between Mesolithic and Neolithic strata, as well as the character of the associated finds, rule out any possible dilemmas and clearly endorse Mesolithic attribution of these burials.
	www.vela-spila.hr /eng/mezolithic.html (958 words)

	Mesolithic Europe - the dark age of prehistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In my previous article I showed that the evidence from both 'art' and technology shows that that the we cannot sustain a definition of a Mesolithic Dark Age that is based upon any idea of cultural degradation.
		Massive shoreline changes during the Mesolithic must lead us to consider that much of what does remain to be discovered is currently is under the sea.
		Whether we actually regard the delimitation of the period in question as valid or not, those 5,000 odd years still ran their course and some traces of the lives of the people who lived through them is still to be found beneath the soil and the sea.
	www.newarchaeology.com /articles/mesolithic2.htm (1712 words)

	Mesolithic Stone Age in Prehistoric Ireland
		The earliest concrete evidence of mesolithic activity in Ireland is to be found in county Antrim (which is Ireland's only source of flint), county Londonderry and county Sligo.
		Near the end of the Mesolithic era, which ended roughly around 4000BC, the hunters were beginning to copy coiled pottery using technology that had spread from the more advanced Neolithic tribes of eastern Europe.
		The final part of the Mesolithic era is marked by a decline in the population, or at least a decline in the relics that we have found.
	www.wesleyjohnston.com /users/ireland/past/pre_norman_history/mesolithic_age.html (1027 words)

	Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Archaeology: Periods and Cultures: Prehistory: Mesolithic
		The Mesolithic is a chronological period beginning around 10,000 years ago, situated between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic, and associated with the rise to dominance of tiny stone tools known as microliths.
		Mesolithic North Africa · cached · A virtual exhibit of the Logan Museum, Beloit College that describes the Capsian Period (7,000-5,000 BCE) of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
		Mesolithic Period · iweb · cached · Encyclopedia.com article that discusses the period in human development from the end of the Paleolithic and to the beginning of the Neolithic.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=573002 (313 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mesolithic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the 'Middle Stone Age') is the period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.
		The Azilian is a name given by archaeologists to an industry of the terminal Palaeolithic and early Mesolithic in northern Spain and south western France.
		The Howick house Mesolithic site was found when an amateur archaeologist noticed flint tools eroding out of a sandy cliff face near the village of Howick in Northumberland.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mesolithic (1140 words)

	Mesolithic Period -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mesolithic tool kits are based on chipped stone and often include microliths, very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft.
		The Paleolithic was everywhere followed by the Mesolithic, a period when man continued to use stone tools, mostly microlithic, and, while still in the hunting-and-gathering stage, depended less for his food supply on large mammals than on fish and mollusks.
		A great proliferation of Mesolithic cultures is evident throughout India, although they are known almost exclusively from surface collections of tools.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052215?&query=mesolithic (1010 words)

	Zinken: [01] Mesolithic
		When the 3-year-old died, her parents placed her favorite toys in her arms, wrapped her in fabric woven from fibers of native plants, and buried her body in the soft, muck bottom of a small pond.
		Mesolithic Britain was thought to have been inhabited by hunter-gatherers, constantly on the move in search of food; however, the recent excavation of a dwelling in Northumbria reveals our Stone Age ancestors to have been ingenious and elaborate house builders.
		The principal aim of the project is to test hypotheses regarding hunter-gatherer mobility and subsistence strategies during the Mesolithic in northern England...
	zinken.typepad.com /palaeo/01_mesolithic (1648 words)

	Scotland's Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Studies at Callanish, Rum and elsewhere have suggested that the Mesolithic population of Scotland were actively reducing the woodland cover and encouraging grasslands and heather woods.
		Morton at the time of the Mesolithic was a peninsula at the mouth of the Tay and it may have become an island at high tide.
		In 1979 Mesolithic remains were found during work on the later medieval town and shell middens are also known from the area.
	www.scotlandspast.org /mesolith2.cfm (1850 words)

	TAG 1999 session - Peopling the Mesolithic in a northern environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The aim of this paper is to re-analyse the data from excavations of the early Mesolithic period in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire.
		The contradictions in this are the so-called ‘silent’ Mesolithic in Scotland and the unquestionable removal of woodlands in the uplands, to apparent lack of human modification of woodlands in the lowlands.
		Apart from in the case of several well known late Mesolithic cemeteries, which appear to shed some light on within group social relations in the regions in question, settlement patterns continue to be explained mainly in terms of economic responses to ecological parameters.
	www.cf.ac.uk /hisar/conferences/tag99/meso.html (2830 words)

	No carefree life for Mesolithic people
		The traditional view was of small bands progressing through the forested countryside, often exploiting coastal and inland / upland areas, in a seasonal round prescribed by the movements of animals and the ripening cycles and availability patterns of plants.
		Current research, however, is challenging this view of the last hunter-gatherers in the British Isles, and suggests that Mesolithic people worked harder for their living, in a far more organised way, than has previously been thought.
		From a Mesolithic research point of view it permits details of the location of finds - flint scatters in the main - to be analysed in a multitude of ways.
	www.abotech.com /Articles/mesolithic.htm (1396 words)

	Mesolithic Seascapes
		Given this, the fact that bloodstone, from the Mesolithic through to the Bronze Age, is found alongside other flints, away from Rhum, on other islands and on the mainland, tells us one very simple thing: that prehistoric people moved between these places — over the sea.
		I suggest that whilst this may be mundane it is also absloutely fundamental to understanding Mesolithic life: that a seascape must be written for this period.
		Their examination of the Arawe islanders demonstrated that the Lapita culture, characterised by shared material culture over a large geographical area, is best understood, not as isolated communities linked by dispersed trading networks, but as 'a mobile way of life' (ibid, 169), where populations continually returned to certain points in the seascape.
	www.shef.ac.uk /assem/2/2war1.html (1866 words)

	assemblage 4 -- Chert Use in the Mesolithic
		It is often chosen alongside, or in preference to flint, for scrapers with steep retouch, awls, and fabricators, and it is often an alternative to flint for microliths, especially later in the Mesolithic.
		This may be a reflection of population growth, the fact that the Later Mesolithic is three times as long as the Early Mesolithic, or a combination of both (Spikins 1998).
		In the Mesolithic, the Derbyshire Peak was inhabited by groups of hunter-gatherers who knew where to quarry this stone and how to work it.
	www.shef.ac.uk /assem/4/4hind.html (3882 words)

	A Brief History of Orkney - The Mesolithic Era
		ompared to the wealth of material for later periods of prehistory, the evidence of the human inhabitants of Orkney during the Mesolithic period is scant.
		The people of the Mesolithic were nomadic hunter-gatherers, living in small groups and shifting according the season and the availability of food supplies.
		This, along with the fact that they did not leave stone constructions such as Skara Brae or Maeshowe, means that they have left little trace for the modern archaeologist.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/mesolithic.htm (305 words)

	British Archaeology, no 52, April 2000: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Mesolithic era is often characterised as a kind of golden age of harmony with nature and peaceful co-existence between people.
		The Ofnet community of hunter-gatherers were slaughtered in the Mesolithic period, often characterised as a kind of golden age of harmony with nature and peaceful co-existence between people.
		She discovered that the proportion of skulls with fractures and dents was greater for the Mesolithic than for any subsequent period.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba52/ba52feat.html (5902 words)

	History Scotland Magazine: First Settlers
		The earliest (Mesolithic) settlement of Scotland at the end of the last Ice Age is one area where there are large gaps in our knowledge and Scotlands First Settlers (SFS) was set up to look in more detail at the Mesolithic settlement of the western seaboard.
		The sea was of great importance in the Mesolithic, both as a source of many different types of food (fish, shellfish, sea mammals, birds, coastal plants, nuts and berries), and as the highway that linked the different communities.
		The people of the Mesolithic were highly mobile, they moved around from season to season in order to make the most of the different resources that were offered in separate areas.
	www.historyscotland.com /features/firstsettlers.html (2622 words)

	Bhimbetka India, The mesolithic artists loved to paint animals. They painted deer, boars, elephants, leopards, tigers, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The oldest and largest number of paintings belong to the mesolithic phase, of the stone age.
		During the mesolithic phase, people were still basically hunters and food gatherers.
		The mesolithic artists of Bhimbetka knew as many as 21 colours, including various shades of white, yellow, orange, red, purple, brown, green and fl.
	www.4to40.com /discoverindia/places/index.asp?article=discoverindia_places_bhimbetka (1451 words)

	Other fossils - Cretaceous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a superb bi-facial knife and comes from the Mesolithic of Denmark and dates back 6,000 years.
		This is a bi-facial knife worked from a core and comes from the Mesolithic of Denmark dating back 6,000 years.
		This is small flake knife and comes from the Mesolithic of Denmark dating back 6,000 years.
	www.neovenator.org /Mesolithic%20scrappers.htm (214 words)

	Mesolithic paintings western europe Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mesolithic Paintings Western Europe are great for when you're looking to get better at mesolithic paintings western europe for selfish purposes.
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		Mesolithic in Eurasia Introduction to the Mesolithic period in Eurasia (not include Western Europe).
	western.2newinfo1.info /1-western-belts/mesolithic-paintings-western-europe.html (265 words)

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