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Reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer hut and canoe – Irish National Heritage Park. Evidence of human activity during the Mesolithic period in Irish history has been found in excavations at the Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in the north of the island, cremations on the banks of the River Shannon in the west, campsites at Lough Boora in the midlands, and middens and other sites elsewhere in the ...
The excavations uncovered a series of Mesolithic platforms and stony layers, with Mesolithic activity dating from around 4500 cal. BC, with a range of dates into the Neolithic, with a final date of around 2500 cal. BC. [2] [3] As well as the Mesolithic stony platforms and layers, the excavations uncovered a series of pits, and prehistoric field ...
Gwendoline Cave, County Clare is the only site in Ireland with evidence of human occupation that pre-dates this location. [3] Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is a Scheduled Historic Monument in the townland of Mount Sandel, in Causeway Coast and Glens Council area, at Grid Ref: C8533 3076. [4] It was excavated by Peter Woodman in the 1970s. [1] [5]
The Moss-side hoard of Mesolithic Bann flake tools and blades, Ulster Museum. [22] The hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic era lived on a varied diet of seafood, birds, wild boar and hazelnuts. [23] [24] There is no evidence for deer in the Irish Mesolithic and it is likely that the first red deer were introduced in the early stages of the ...
Chinese sites that have been regarded as Mesolithic are better considered as "Early Neolithic". [34] In the archaeology of India, the Mesolithic, dated roughly between 12,000 and 8,000 BP, remains a concept in use. [35] In the archaeology of the Americas, an Archaic or Meso-Indian period, following the Lithic stage, somewhat equates to the ...
The Alice and Gwendoline Cave is a limestone cave in County Clare, Ireland.It was first investigated by scholars in 1902. In 2016, a bear patella with butchery marks found in the cave was dated to the Upper Palaeolithic, which is potentially the oldest known evidence of human habitation in Ireland.
Note: Most prehistoric archaeological sites in North America are classified as Archaeological sites or as Stone, Bronze or Iron Age sites. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Name Location Culture Period Comment Franchthi Cave: Argolis, Balkans: c. 15,000 – 9,000 BP Previously inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic, continuously inhabited into the Neolithic.