Mesolithic period

The chipped-flint implement industry, accompanying the animal assemblages referable to this phase, used to be formerly designated as Magdalanien it is now known in the archaeological literature either as the late Gravettian or, in its final phase, as the Mesolithic Period. 

Vertes, L., 1965. Az 6sk6kor es az atmeneti k6kor emlekei Magyarorszagon. (Remains from the Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic Periods in Hungary.) Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 385 pp. (in Hungarian). 

Resinous materials have played an important role in many past civilizations. They constitute one of the most important classes of organic artifacts. Fossilized resins, known in the European context as amber, are attractive, easily worked materials. Humans have been creating a variety of artifacts ranging from beads to elaborate statues and have been trading these materials since the Mesolithic period (approximately 5-10 thousand years ago). Modern resins also have served... 

Just at the end of the Upper Paleolithic a Mesolithic cultural period emerged and with it several new innovations made hunting even more energy... 

Figure 8.10 Carbon isotope ratios in bone collagen plotted against radiocarbon ages for 183 British Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from coastal (within 10 km of modern coastline squares) and inland sites (crosses). The sharp change in carbon isotope ratio at around 5200 radiocarbon years BP is interpreted as a shift from a marine diet to one dominated by terrestrial protein. This coincides with the onset of the Neolithic period in Britain. (Reproduced from Richards et al. 2003, with permission of Nature Publishing Group and the first author.)...

Lithic Material from the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Periods of Portugal... 

Time Period Late Mesolithic - Early Neolithic 4000 bc... 

About 8000 BCE, when the last ice age ended, the Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic Age, began. People of this period are said to have tamed the dog and hollowed out logs to make crude boats. They also made the first pottery by sun baking clay, a chemical process that transforms loose, liquidy hydrated silicates into a strongly bonded network. Pottery appeared in Japan as early as 10,000 bce and in the Americas around 5000 bce. 

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