Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire. After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat.

Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...