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Mesolithic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. 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.
noun
  1. Short for the Mesolithic period.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Mesolithic

Etymology

From meso- + -lithic.

Related words

lith Neolithic Paleolithic Stone Age
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