A Mesolithic site may date from as early as 9000 BC, ... Also, the site would have been a shallow valley in Mesolithic times, and sheltered from the elements.

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The forest dates back to the late Mesolithic period, also known as the Middle Stone Age. This time period is dated from 10,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE. In this time, humans began to enjoy warmer ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley during the Mesolithic period ...

In this blossoming landscape, Mesolithic hunter-gatherers arrived and flourished. “During the Holocene, Doggerland was a wooded environment, but with really extensive coastlines and enormous ...

10,000-year-old crayon discovery points to 'colorful' Mesolithic life By Chris Ciaccia , Fox News Published January 29, 2018 9:43am EST | Updated January 29, 2018 9:49am EST ...

Layers within the cave show a high density of Neolithic settlements, and trace life back to Middle Paleolithic and Mesolithic times. The figurine in question (dubbed Unit 5.2) ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

The Mesolithic is an era encompassing the period of time between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago. Due to the conditions in Europe at the time, scientists believed that early Europeans from this period ...

The pieces of pigment were discovered on opposite sides of the ancient lake in North Yorkshire. One of the ancient chunks of red ochre— a type of reddish-brown clay used by prehistoric people ...

Haplogroup H dominates present-day Western European mitochondrial DNA variability (>40%), yet was less common (~19%) among Early Neolithic farmers (~5450 BC) and virtually absent in Mesolithic ...

A two-inch Mesolithic stone figurine from Azerbaijan tells a tale of cultural growth. It’s the first cultural find from the area of the South Caucasus. The sandstone figurine depicts a human ...