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The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside northern Europe, and for the corresponding period in the Levant and Caucasus .
1 Mesolithic Europe. 2 ... Howick house: Northumberland, Britain: c. 9,600 - 9,500 BP [4] Epipaleolithic Near East. Name Location Culture Period Comment Ref Tell ...
The Howick house is a Mesolithic site located in ... rather than being used on a transient or seasonal basis as expected during the Mesolithic period.
The Later Mesolithic period ends around 4000 BC and is followed by a Neolithic lithic (stone tool) tradition based on hard and soft hammer percussion, indirect percussion, pressure flaking, and bifacing. [6] As with the Early and Later Mesolithic, no artefacts have yet been found that represent a transition between the Later Mesolithic and ...
During the Mesolithic the site was near the outflow at the western end of a palaeolake, known as Lake Flixton. [2] At the end of the last ice age a combination of glacial and post-glacial geomorphology caused the area to drain to the west (away from the shortest-distance to the North Sea at Filey). The basin filled by Lake Flixton was probably ...
Prehistoric pile-dwelling house reconstruction Bronze Age house reconstruction (c. 1000 BC), Laténium museum, Switzerland Cortaillod-Est , Bronze Age settlement, Switzerland, c. 1000 BC
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The oldest house for which there is evidence in Britain is the oval structure of wooden posts found at South Queensferry near the Firth of Forth, dating from the Mesolithic period, about 8240 BCE. [1] The earliest stone structures are probably the three hearths found at Jura, dated to about 6000 BCE. [2]