Leisters are three-pronged fishing spears with backwards angled barbs or shoulders. Exceptionally preserved Mesolithic sites like Tybring Vig in Denmark have yielded both parts and assembled examples of these tools from over 6000 years ago.

8 of history's worst medical practices:

1. Trepanning: Drilling a hole in a patient's skull - without any anesthesia, keep in mind - was once considered good medicine. Trepanation is one of the oldest known surgical procedures, dating back as long ago as the Mesolithic era -

mesolithic arborock

Introducing Cheddar Man, a man from 10,000 years ago whose descendant is alive today. Cheddar Man refers to an early Mesolithic individual discovered in Gough's cave in Cheddar, England, back in 1903. He is believed to have met a violent end in his twenties. Through DNA analysis,

A Mesolithic microlith, minuscule but mighty. Found in our excavations overlooking the largest of the now-vanished lakes at Skipsea, Yorkshire. #Skipsea2024

Did you know, up until around 8,000 years ago, Britain was connected to mainland Europe? By this time Mesolithic people were already working on the landscape where Stonehenge would later be built.

One of the more unexpected finds from our 2023 Mesolithic midden dig was the partial skeleton of a dog with its skull neatly split. This was in a pit dug into the shell midden, so it is definitely not Mesolithic, but at the moment we don't know how much more recent!

Endangered Fatehpuri Sikri 5000 years old Rockarts :

Some hillocks in India with prehistoric cave paintings are now protected by a Supreme Court order. The paintings date back to the Mesolithic period, but efforts to protect and conserve them have been lacking.

Near Fatehpur

Similar to the mesolithic european outfit from 'Bad Dürrenberg' in Germany

Cheddar Man is the name given to the oldest near-complete human skeleton ever found in Britain. He lived about 10,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period. His remains were discovered in 1903.

Cheddar Man, the oldest near-complete human skeleton ever discovered in Britain, lived approximately 10,000 years ago during the Mesolithic period. Unearthed in 1903, his DNA extracted from the skull has yielded surprising insights into his appearance and heritage. The analysis

Megalithic & Mesolithic stone Age Rock paintings Discovered at Mulugu, Telangana, India. There are nearly 200 Megalithic monuments to be counted in Bandala Village of Telangana Mulugu District, These sites are Dated 8000 B.C.E - 3000 B.C.E

Researched more into Poland, the Mesolithic Komornica and Janislawice cultures resisted Neolithization from LBK groups up until the Funnelbeaker culture

Komornica and Janislawice are both unrelated hunter gatherer cultures from the east and west respectively

Aveline’s Hole in Somerset, England, is the largest Mesolithic burial cemetery in Northern Europe, dating from 10,200 to 10,400 B.C. It's believed that the cave served as the final resting place for sixty people and is meticulously sealed from the outside world.

The oldest recorded evidence of honey collecting, found in the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, Spain, is estimated to be between 8,000 to 10,000 years old.

This Mesolithic cave painting depicts a person climbing to reach a wild bees' nest, with bees flying around and honeycombs

The Shigir Idol, discovered in the peat bog of Shigir on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, near the village of Kalata, is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world. It was carved during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age, making it twice as

Deer skulls featuring carved eyeholes, dating back 11,000 years, unearthed at the Mesolithic archaeological site of Star Carr in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.

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The Shigir Idol is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world, made during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age. The wood it was carved from is approximately 12,000 years old. The sculpture was discovered on January 24, 1890 at a depth of 4 m (13

Frequency of major Y-chromosome haplogroups among Near Eastern and Southeast European Epipaleolithic/Mesolithic and early Neolithic populations