MESOLITHIC AGE

MESOLITHIC , ALSO CALLED ‘ MIDDLE STONE AGE ’ , ANCIENT CULTURE STAGE THAT EXISTED BETWEEN THE PALEOLITHIC ( OLD STONE AGE ), WITH ITS CHIPPED STONE TOOLS , AND THE NEOLITHIC ( NEW STONE AGE ), WITH ITS POLISHED STONE TOOLS . AMONG THE NEW FORMS OF CHIPPED STONE TOOLS WERE MICROLITHS , VERY SMALL STONE TOOLS INTENDED FOR MOUNTING TOGETHER ON A SHAFT TO PRODUCE A SERRATED EDGE . POLISHED STONE WAS ANOTHER INNOVENTION THAT OCCURRED IN SOME MESOLITHIC ASSEMBLAGES. 

Mesolithic tools were generally composite devices manufactured with small chipped stone tools called microliths and retouched bladelets. The Paleolithic utilized more primitive stone treatments, and the Neolithic mainly used polished rather than chipped stone tools.

The Mesolithic period was 10,000 BCE to 7,000 BCE. The people were moving around not so much and they built wigwam shaped shelters in groups. The camps were moved in different seasons. The wigwams were built of wooden poles and covered with animal skins and bark.

What were Stone Age clothes made out of?

Stone Age people, as the first humans, were the first clothing and shoemakers. In warmer climates, they made their clothes out of linen, since it was cool and lightweight, but in colder climates and during the ice ages, they made their clothes out of leather. Wool was used in later agricultural societies as well.

*Invention of Misolithic

*During Mesolithic phase, some important inventions appeared. One such invention was the microlith, a small, pointed blade of stone used for knives, arrow points, and spearheads. The microlith was a crowning achievement in stone tools made by chipping because it was so light that hundreds of microliths could be made from a single pound of stone.

*Other inventions of Mesolithic age

*Another notable Mesolithic advance was the first crude pottery. Made of sun-baked clay, pots were used to store food and water.

*The bow and arrow, invented either late in the Paleolithic period or in the Mesolithic period, served hunters and fighters until the firearm took its place in the 14th century AD.