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Origin and history of mesolithic

mesolithic(adj.)

1866 in archaeology, "belonging to the middle Stone Age (in Europe, roughly 15,000 to 5,000 years before the present, between the paleolithic and the neolithic); see meso- "middle" + lithic "consisting of stone." The word was used c. 1859 in a different sense in geology.

Entries linking to mesolithic

1797, "pertaining to or consisting of stone," from Greek lithikos "of or pertaining to stone," from lithos "stone" (see litho-). From 1875 as "pertaining to lithium.

before vowels mes-, word-forming element meaning "middle, intermediate, halfway," from Greek mesos "middle, in the middle; middling, moderate; between" (from PIE root *medhyo- "middle").

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