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Definition of: Mesolithic
(mes′ə·lith′ik, mē′sə-) adjective Anthropol.
Pertaining to or describing that period of human culture immediately following the Magdalenian stage of the Paleolithic, characterized by small, delicately worked microliths and an economy transitional between food gathering and a settled agriculture. Also called Epipaleolithic, Miolithic. [<MESO- + LITH(O)- + -IC]
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