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1. Mesolithic means

“middle stone age”

10 things everyone should know about the

MESOLITHIC...

2. The Mesolithic was from about

9,500 BC until

4,000 BC 3. Mesolithic

hunter-gatherers caught and collected

wild food

4. They used tiny

flint (stone) tools called microliths to make arrows

5. Scientific tests show some people

ate lots of fish 6. They lived in huts

made of wood and animal skins

7. Britain became an island during

the Mesolithic around 6,500 BC

9. People buried their

dead but sometimes they put parts of the

skeletons into caves 10. At Star Carr, near Scarborough,

Mesolithic people wore headdresses

made from deer antlers

8. Most of Britain would have

been covered in trees

Life in the Mesolithic lifeinthemesolithic.wordpress.com

CB Pease

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Lisa Jarvis

A Mesolithic home

Hazelnuts

Reconstructed Hut

Birch trees

Reconstructed headdress

Sea Levels

A

Mesolithic Hunter

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