What is the Mesolithic period?
Q: What is the Mesolithic period?
A: The Mesolithic period is a period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age.
Q: How did people live during the Palaeolithic period?
A: During the Palaeolithic period, people were pure hunter-gatherers.
Q: How did people live during the Neolithic period?
A: During the Neolithic period, they were farmers in settlements with domesticated animals and wheat, with over 100 kinds of tools and with pottery.
Q: What are Mesolithic tools?
A: Mesolithic tools are small tools produced by chipping, and are hunter-gatherer tools, often arrowheads and points.
Q: What are Neolithic tools?
A: Neolithic tools are often polished and far more varied. They are tools of more settled societies with some agriculture.
Q: Who introduced the term 'Mesolithic' and when?
A: The term 'Mesolithic' was introduced by Hodder Westrop in 1877, though the idea had been used earlier.
Q: What other term is sometimes used instead of 'Mesolithic'?
A: Another term, 'Epipalaeolithic', is sometimes used instead.
