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
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CB Pease
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A Mesolithic home
Hazelnuts
Reconstructed Hut
Birch trees
Reconstructed headdress
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A
Mesolithic Hunter