What is the mesolithic era?

The mesolithic era applies to a short time immediately after the recession of continental iceberg glaciers, about 11,000 years ago (9000 BCE), to the development of agriculture 10,000 - 8,000 years ago. Mesolithic cultures are cultures during the mesolithic era. Sometimes the word "epipaleolithic" is used in connection with the mesolithic, to describe groups living in a period that maintained the lifestyle of hunters-gathering, while "Mesolithic" is specially reserved for those cultures in a state of transition to agriculture. Occasionally, but rarely have the terms of reverse importance. Terminology is likely to standardize in the near future.

"Mesolithic" means "the time of the middle stone". However, the prefix "Meso" in the word can mean "between", and this has been brought that some scientists refer to cultures between the hunter collection regime and the agricultural regime. The mesolithic era begins at the end of the Pleistocene epoch and the strength of the Holocene, the last geological epoch.

before the mesolithic era covered most of Eurasia and northernAmerica. Any terrain north of 50 ° N was basically uninhabitable until the ice was 11,000 years ago. Global temperatures increased, making people life easier for people. According to Mesolithic, people have already spread all over the world, with the exception of Antarctica and several distant islands. America and Australia have been fully colonized.

The mesolithic era was an unusual transition between paleolithic and neolithic. Because the period was relatively short, mesolithic artifacts are relatively difficult to come, consisting mainly of middens or scrap. There are large shells from the mesolithic era in coastal areas around the world. In the British Columbia, there is several meters in the department, which has existed for at least 10,000 years.

Mesolithic Cultures were about as advanced as you could get before the establishment of agriculture and cities. Hunted animals with different bows and spears and managed most of withsentence megafaunas (large animals such as mammoths) to extract. Like civilization, they survived a mixture of hunting and gathering, although perhaps they intentionally began to grow seeds of edible plants in fertile soils, pulled out weeds and made an artificial selection.