What is the Mesolithic Era?

The Middle Stone Age is a period assumed by archeologists. The Middle Stone Age is the middle period of the Stone Age.

Middle Stone Age

The Middle Stone Age is a time period assumed by archeologists.

The prominent feature of European Mesolithic culture is the prevalent geometric fine stone tools. This fine stone is triangular,

Xiachuan is the southeast of Shanxi Province

The Xiachuan site spans each corner of the three counties of Yuanqu, Qinshui and Yangcheng in the south of Shanxi Province. Within a range of 20-30 kilometers, 16 such fine stone tools have been found. It can be seen that this area used to be a hunter's area in the Middle Stone Age. The large number of unearthed fine stone tools indicate that composite tools were widely used at the time, including knives, saws, daggers, and bows and spears with wooden handles and bone handles. With the emergence of these new types of tools and weapons, social productivity has been greatly improved, and a new leap in social economy has begun. The people of Xiachuan in the Middle Stone Age lived an economic life mainly based on hunting and supplemented by collection, which prepared the conditions for the arrival of the Neolithic Age. By the end of the 20th century, there were dozens of sites similar to Xiachuan cultural relics found in the crescent-shaped zone from northeast to southwest of China. Among the most important are Xiachuan, Xueguan, Huairen, Maoxuekou, Puxian, Shanxi. , Shaanxi Dali Shayuan, Inner Mongolia Hailaer Songshan area and several places near Hohhot, Tibet Nyalam, Shenzha, Shuanghu area, Xuchang Lingjing, Henan, Guinan Layihai, Qinghai, Yunnan, Yunnan Goat Yi Xinzhai Village, Guangdong Yangchun Monolith, Zifeng Huangyan Cave, and Xiqiao Mountain in the South China Sea.

The dates of these sites have generally gone from about 12000 to about 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, and they have experienced a development process of 4,000 to 5,000 years. The La Yihai site in Guinan, Qinghai is a site from the end of the Middle Stone Age in China, dating back about 7000 years.

At that time, the Yellow River Basin had basically entered the stage of agricultural economic prosperity in the Neolithic Age, and the remains of the La Yihai clan still maintained strong cultural characteristics of the Middle Stone Age. This fact indicates that the economic development of different regions is very different. The Nu River and Lancang River valleys in the west of Yunnan Province are located between the dangerous peaks and ridges of the Hengduan Mountains. The karst caves on both sides of the Nu River are densely populated, and the cliffs are well-developed, providing conditions for ancient human habitation. Due to traffic congestion and lack of farming conditions, up to five or six thousand BC BC, there were still some clans whose economy was mainly gathering and hunting. Remains and relics were left on the hilltop of Tangzigou Village in the southwest of Baoshan City, and more than 400 stone tools were excavated. The animal skeletons are all Holocene species; pottery is not seen in the site; tools and utensils are in the group No utensils have been used for cultivation, seeding, harvesting, and processing, but the cut-out stone rings have shown progress over the Paleolithic age; the bone corners are also more numerous and more refined than those found in Paleolithic sites.

Facts show that after the Neolithic Age entered the Yellow and Yangtze River basins, it is still in the Middle Stone Age.