Mesolithic

Examples of Mesolithic in the following topics:

• Mesolithic Art

• Mesolithic Art

  • During the Mesolithic period, humans developed cave paintings, engravings, and ceramics to reflect their daily lives.
  • Some Mesolithic settlements were villages of huts and others walled cities.
  • A number of notable Mesolithic rock art sites exist on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
  • These pottery-making Mesolithic cultures can be found peripheral to the sedentary Neolithic cultures.
  • Compare and contrast the Mesolithic period with the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.

• African Art

  • The oldest African art dates to the Mesolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary and includes mostly rock-art.
  • The oldest African art is dated to the Mesolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

• The Stone Age

  • From the Paleolithic through the Mesolithic, cave paintings and portable art such as figurines, statuettes, and beads predominated, with decorative figured workings also seen on some utilitarian objects.
  • Create a timeline of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Periods of the Stone Age, giving a brief description of the art from each period

• Elements of Nature

  • The construction of these structures took place mainly in the Neolithic period (though earlier Mesolithic examples are known) and continued into the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.