List of Mesolithic settlements

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List of Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic settlements.

Mesolithic Europe

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Name

!Location

!Culture

!Period

!Comment

Franchthi Cave

|Argolis, Balkans

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|{{circa}} 15,000 – 9,000 BP

|Previously inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic, continuously inhabited into the Neolithic.

|Sarah Gibbens, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180120032446/https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/archaeology-agvi-greek-stoneage-facial-reconstruction/ "Face of 9,000-Year-Old Teenager Reconstructed"], National Geographic, 19 January 2018.

Pulli settlement

|Pärnu, Baltics

|Kunda culture

|{{circa}} 10,800 – 7,800 BP

|

|{{Cite journal |title=Early Holocene coastal settlements and palaeoenvironment on the shore of the Baltic Sea at Pärnu, southwestern Estonia |first1=Siim |last1=Veski |first2=Atko |last2=Heinsalu |first3=Veiko |last3=Klassen |first4=Aivar |last4=Kriiska |first5=Lembi |last5=Lõugas |first6=Anneli |last6=Poska |first7=Ulla |last7=Saluäär |journal=Quaternary International |volume=130 |issue=1 |date=2005 |pages=75–85 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2004.04.033 |access-date=2020-03-03 |archive-date=2013-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003135159/http://www.gi.ee/~veski/10916.pdf |url=http://www.gi.ee/~veski/10916.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Lepenski Vir

|Serbia, Balkans

|Iron Gates culture

|{{circa}} 11,500 - 8,000 BP

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|{{cite news| url=https://www.academia.edu/1558753 | work=Rusu Aurelian, Brukenthal. Acta Musei, VI. 1, 2011 | title=LEPENSKI VIR – SCHELA CLADOVEI CULTURE'SCHRONOLOGY AND ITS INTERPRETATION | date=2011}}

Star Carr

|North Yorkshire, Britain

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|{{circa}} 11,300 - 10,480 BP

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Howick house

|Northumberland, Britain

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|{{circa}} 9,600 - 9,500 BP

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|{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/oldest_house_01.shtml|title=Britain's Oldest House?|last=Richards|first=Julian|date=17 February 2011|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=5 May 2018|language=en}}

Epipaleolithic Near East

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Name

!Location

!Culture

!Period

!Comment

!Ref

Tell Qaramel

|Queiq, Levant

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 18,890 - 12,980 BP

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Aammiq

|Beqaa Valley, Levant

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 14,000 – 12,200 BP

|Later occupied during the Ubaid period.

|Copeland, L. Wescombe, P.J., Inventory of Stone-Age-Sites in Lebanon I & II, Mélanges de l'Université Saint Joseph, 41/2 & 42/1, Beirut, 1965/66.

Tell Abu Hureyra

|Mesopotamia

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 13,500 – 11,500 BP

|

|{{cite journal |last1=Hillman |first1=Gordon |last2=Hedges |first2=Robert |last3=Moore |first3=Andrew |last4=Colledge |first4=Susan |last5=Pettitt |first5=Paul |title=New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates |journal=The Holocene |date=27 July 2016 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=383–393 |doi=10.1191/095968301678302823 |s2cid=84930632 }}

Beidha

|Jordan Valley, Levant

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 13,000 – 12,000 BP

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Mureybet

|Mesopotamia

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 12,200 – 11,700 BP

|(Phase IA) Later occupied by the Khiamian and Mureybetian cultures.

|{{citation |last1=Ibáñez |first1=Juan José |editor1-first=Juan José |editor1-last=Ibáñez |title=Le site néolithique de Tell Mureybet (Syrie du Nord). En hommage à Jacques Cauvin |series=BAR International Series |volume=1843 |year=2008 |publisher=Archaeopress |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1-4073-0330-7 |pages=661–675 |chapter=Conclusion |hdl=10261/9794}}{{rp|663–664}}

Hatula

|Judean Hills, Levant

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 12,150 – 11,320 BP

|Later inhabited by the Khiamian and Sultanian cultures.

|{{cite book|last=Maisels|first=Charles Keith|title=Early Civilizations of the Old World: The Formative Histories of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i7_hcCxJd9AC&pg=PA96|access-date=8 July 2011|year=2001|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-10976-5|pages=96–}}

Jericho

|Jordan Valley, Levant

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 12,000 – 11,500 BP

|Succeeded by the Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement.

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'Ain Mallaha

|Hula Valley, Levant

|Natufian

|{{circa}} 12,000 – 10,000 BP

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|{{cite book |last=Mithen |first=Steven |title=After the ice : a global human history, 20.000 - 5.000 BC |year=2006 |publisher=Harvard Univ. Press |location=Cambridge, Mass. |isbn=978-0-674-01570-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/aftericeglobalhu00mith/page/29 29] |edition=1st paperback |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/aftericeglobalhu00mith/page/29 }}

See also

References

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