On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Mesolithic. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as period or epipaleolithic and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Mesolithic in a sentence
Mesolithic meaning
Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC.
Synonyms of Mesolithic
Using Mesolithic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC.
- Useful related words include: time period, period of time, period, mesolithic age.
- In the example corpus, mesolithic often appears in combinations such as: the mesolithic, of mesolithic, mesolithic and.
Context around Mesolithic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mesolithic
- In this selection, "mesolithic" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, period and waited stand out and add context to how "mesolithic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include concept of mesolithic as best and does the mesolithic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mesolithic" sits close to words such as abating, abstaining and accumulator, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mesolithic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He mentions neither Westropp nor the Mesolithic, however. (8 words)
Animal burials date back to prehistory with examples emerging from the Mesolithic period. (13 words)
England There are many examples of possible tools from Mesolithic deposits in England. (13 words)
Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods. (34 words)
In 2010 the foundations of a large timber structure, dated to 4500 BC, were found on the Thames foreshore, south of Vauxhall Bridge. citation The function of the mesolithic structure is not known. (33 words)
He refers to the "transition or 'Mesolithic' forms" but to him these are "rough hewn axes chipped over the entire surface" mentioned by Evans as the earliest of the Neolithic. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Mysteries remain about Vittrup Man, but this detailed understanding of his geographic and dietary life history provides new insights into interactions between Mesolithic and Neolithic societies in Europe.
Doggerland is an area of low-lying land, flooded more than 8,000 years ago, that connected Lincolnshire to continental Europe and was home to Mesolithic people.
A fuller exposition of the Mesolithic waited for his book, Pre-Historic Phases, dedicated to Sir John Lubbock, published in 1872.
Animal burials date back to prehistory with examples emerging from the Mesolithic period.
Archaeological evidence suggests that Mesolithic people settled in the region of York between 8000 and 7000 BC, although it is not known whether their settlements were permanent or temporary.
Comparisons of the isotope levels of Mesolithic aurochs and domestic cattle bones showed that aurochs probably inhabited wetter areas than domestic cattle.
Conversely, those that are in course of transition toward artificial food production are assigned to the "Mesolithic".
Dartmoor is thought to have been occupied by Mesolithic hunter-gatherer peoples from about 6000 BC.
Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.
England There are many examples of possible tools from Mesolithic deposits in England.
Epipaleolithic and Protoneolithic cover the same cultures, more or less, as does the Mesolithic.
Groups of hunter-fisher-gatherers started to inhabit the area from the Mesolithic (8200 BC), up to the advent of agriculture in the Neolithic (3200 BC).
Having read Westropp, Sir John knew perfectly well that all the former's Mesolithic implements were surface finds.
He had excavated the type site of the Azilian Culture, the basis of today's Mesolithic.
He mentions neither Westropp nor the Mesolithic, however.
He refers to the "transition or 'Mesolithic' forms" but to him these are "rough hewn axes chipped over the entire surface" mentioned by Evans as the earliest of the Neolithic.
He took a stand on the question of the Mesolithic identifying it with the Epipaleolithic.
He used his prestige to quell the concept of Mesolithic as best he could, but the public could see that his methods were not typological.
Humans have lived there since the Mesolithic period, and the earliest written references to the islands date back to Roman times.
In 2010 the foundations of a large timber structure, dated to 4500 BC, were found on the Thames foreshore, south of Vauxhall Bridge. citation The function of the mesolithic structure is not known.
Common combinations with mesolithic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the mesolithic 20×
- of mesolithic 4×
- mesolithic and 3×
- and mesolithic 3×
- mesolithic people 2×
- mesolithic period 2×
- from mesolithic 2×
- mesolithic as 2×
- in mesolithic 2×
- for mesolithic 2×