Mesolithic

(adjective)

A prehistoric period that lasted between 10,000 and 5,000 BC.

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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

  • Archaic Hunters and Gatherers

    • Simple map of subsistence methods in the Americas at 1000 BCE.Key:[Yellow] Mesolithic; hunter-gatherers [Green] Neolithic; simple farming societies[Orange] Tribal chiefdoms or civilizations; complex farming societies

  • How to Compare Economies Throughout History

    • Stone Age: Including the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic time frames (up to 3500 B.C.), economics was virtually basic trade between small, local groups.

  • 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.

  • The Rise of Egyptian Civilization

  • Archaeology and History

    • This system contrasts from old-world prehistory in which the terms Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are generally used.