What does mesolithic mean?
Definitions for mesolithic
ˌmɛz əˈlɪθ ɪk, ˌmɛs-, ˌmi zə-, -sə-mesolith·ic
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Princeton's WordNet
Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithicadjective
middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago
mesolithicadjective
of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic)
Wiktionary
Mesolithicnoun
Short for the Mesolithic period.
Mesolithicadjective
Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10,000 and 3,000 BC.
Etymology: From μέσος + λίθος
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mesolithic
The Mesolithic period, also known as the Middle Stone Age, is a period in human history that followed the Paleolithic period and preceded the Neolithic period. It took place between approximately 10,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. It is characterized by transition in humans' lifestyle and technology due to the end of the last Ice Age including development of more refined stone tools, innovation in hunting and fishing techniques, and the first instances of pottery and settling in semi-permanent villages.
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Mesolithic
The Mesolithic is an archaeological concept used to refer to specific groups of archaeological cultures defined as falling between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term developed as a catch-all to refer to material that did not fit into the other categories of prehistory. The term "Epipaleolithic" is often used for areas outside northern Europe but was also the preferred synonym used by French archaeologists until the 1960s. The term is used to refer to different time spans in different parts of Eurasia. It was first used to refer to post-Pleistocene but pre-agricultural material in northwest Europe about 10,000 to 5000 BCE but is also applied to material from the Levant; in Japan the Jōmon period is sometimes called Mesolithic.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mesolithic in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mesolithic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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