0 relating to the middle part of the Stone Age (= the period when humans used tools and weapons made of stone):
They believe that dogs were domesticated during the mesolithic age.
According to the present model, this was due to deterioration of the knowledge as it passed from mouth to ear through mesolithic society.
So are 'mesolithic' and 'neolithic' still useful labels?
The first finds discovered tools ranging as far back as the mesolithic.
During the warmer climate of the mesolithic period, increasing forest cover restricted the movement of hunters, fishers and gatherers.
Mesolithic finds have been located in the same caves as the paleolithic artefacts and drawings.
Mesolithic hunters, gatherers and anglers of the region practised a religion focused on their occupations.
Mesolithic adaptations such as sedentism, population size and use of plant foods are cited as evidence of the transition to agriculture.
The function of the mesolithic structure is not known.
