Crossword clues for mesolithic
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic)
Wikipedia
In archaeology, mesolithic ( Greek: μεσος, mesos "middle"; λιθος, lithos "stone") is the culture between paleolithic and neolithic. The term " Epipaleolithic" is often used for areas outside northern Europe, but was also the preferred synonym used by French archaeologists until the 1960s.
Mesolithic has different time spans in different parts of Eurasia. It was originally post- Pleistocene, pre- agricultural material in northwest Europe about 10,000 to 5,000 BC, but material from the Levant (about 20,000 to 9,500 BC) is also labelled mesolithic.
Usage examples of "mesolithic".
You admit to stupid, you cop to thoughtless, you plead brain-dead, you vouchsafe radical DNA damage all the way back to the Mesolithic, including that embarrassing contretemps involving your ancestor Hoockmuh of the Clactonians which resulted in your being minus a lobe or two of brain, and thus you are truly and genuinely contrite about having cut him off.
And the centuries-old division between India and Pakistan like a severed limb the refugees breaking down all attempts at organization finally the water-table under the city hopelessly poisoned by sewage mass eruptions of disease scampering mesolithic men crouching in their cave exchanging illnesses viruses use mankind as walking cities.
We know that the mesolithic inhabitants of what is now northern Asia hunted mammoths--there are even flint spearheads embedded in corpses preserved in the ice.
Mine was the Mesolithic in Western Europe, particularly Ireland and Brittany.
In all the world, there have been only a few pockets of truly Mesolithic culture left for civilized men to stumble upon.
You admit to stupid, you cop to thoughtless, you plead brain-dead, you vouchsafe radical DNA damage all the way back to the Mesolithic, including that embarrassing contretemps involving your ancestor Hoockmuh of the Clactonians which resulted in your being minus a lobe or two of brain, and thus you are truly and genuinely contrite about having cut him off.