Mesolithic
(adjective)
A prehistoric period that lasted between 10,000 and 5,000 BC.
Examples of Mesolithic in the following topics:
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Mesolithic Art
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.