Mesolithic

Mesolithic
/mez'euh lith"ik, mes'-, mee'zeuh-, -seuh-/, adj. Anthropol. (sometimes l.c.)
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
[1865-70; MESO- + -LITHIC]

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