Mesolithic Period !!!!

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Microliths

A type of stone they using in the stone age for making weapons and tools

Palaeolithic

relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.

Neolithic

relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.

Mesolithic

relating to or denoting the middle part of the Stone Age, between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic.

Middens

Rubbish or left overs

Mount sandel

The Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, just to the east of the iron age Mount Sandel Fort. It is the oldest archaeological site in Ireland with carbon dating indicating an age of 9,000 years old (7,000BC).


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