Editing Mesolithic (section)

===Cultures===
{{Human history and prehistory}}
{{Mesolithic|233}}
[[File:Comb Ceramic Culture.jpg|thumb|[[Comb Ceramic culture]] existed from around 4200 BC to around 2000 BC. The bearers of the culture are thought to have still mostly followed the Mesolithic [[hunter-gatherer]] lifestyle.]]
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! Geographical range
! Periodization
! Culture
! Temporal range
! Notable sites
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|Southeastern Europe (Greece, Aegean)
| [[Balkan Mesolithic]]
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| {{sort|15|15,000–7,000 BP}}
| [[Franchthi Cave|Franchthi]], [[Theopetra cave|Theopetra]]<ref>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.</ref>
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| [[Southeastern Europe]] ([[Romania]]/[[Serbia]])
|  [[Balkan Mesolithic]]
| [[Iron Gates culture]]
| {{sort|13|13,000–5,000 BP}}
| [[Lepenski Vir]]<ref>{{cite book | first=Dragoslav | last=Srejovic | title=Europe's First Monumental Sculpture: New Discoveries at Lepenski Vir | year=1972 | publisher=Thames and Hudson | isbn=978-0-500-39009-2}}
</ref>
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| [[Western Europe]]
| Early Mesolithic
| [[Azilian]]
| {{sort|14|14,000–10,000 BP}}
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| Northern Europe ([[Norway]])
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| [[Fosna-Hensbacka culture]]
| {{sort|12|12,000–10,500 BP}}
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| Northern Europe ([[Norway]])
| Early Mesolithic
| [[Komsa culture]]
| {{sort|12|12,000–10,000 BP}}
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|  Central Asia ([[Ural (region)|Middle Urals]])
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| 12,000–5,000 BP
|[[Shigir Idol]], [[Vtoraya Beregovaya]]<ref>
Central Asia does not enter the Neolithic, but transitions from the Mesolithic to the [[Chalcolithic]] in the fourth millennium BC ([https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/nc.html metmuseum.org]).
The early onset of the Mesolithic in Central Asia and its importance for later European mesolithic cultures was understood only after 2015, with the radiocarbon dating of the Shigor idol to 11,500 years old.
N.E. Zaretskaya et al., "Radiocarbon chronology of the Shigir and Gorbunovo archaeological bog sites, Middle Urals, Russia", ''Proceedings of the 6th International Radiocarbon and Archaeology Symposium'', (E Boaretto and N R Rebollo Franco eds.), ''RADIOCARBON''   Vol 54, No. 3–4, 2012, 783–94.</ref>
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| Northeastern Europe ([[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and northwestern [[Russia]])
| Middle Mesolithic
| [[Kunda culture]]
| {{sort|10.5|10,500–7,000 BP}}
| [[Linnuse, Lääne-Viru County|Lammasmägi]], [[Pulli settlement]]
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| [[Northern Europe]]
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| [[Maglemosian culture]]
| {{sort|11|11,000–8,000 BP}}
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| [[Western Europe|Western]] and [[Central Europe]]
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| [[Sauveterrian|Sauveterrian culture]]
| {{sort|10.5|10,500–8,500 BP}}
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| Western Europe (Great Britain)
| [[British Mesolithic]]
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|  {{sort|11|11,000–6000 BP}}
| [[Star Carr]], [[Howick house]], [[Gough's Cave]], [[Cramond]], [[Aveline's Hole]]
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| Western Europe (Ireland)
| [[Irish Mesolithic]]
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|  {{sort|11|11,000–5,500 BP}}
| [[Mount Sandel Mesolithic site|Mount Sandel]]
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| Western Europe ([[Belgium]] and [[France]])
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| [[Tardenoisian|Tardenoisian culture]]
| {{sort|10|10,000–5,000 BP}}
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| Central and Eastern Europe ([[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]])
| Late Mesolithic
| [[Neman culture]]
| {{sort|09|9,000–5,000 BP}}
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| Northern Europe ([[Scandinavia]])
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| [[Nøstvet and Lihult cultures]]
|  {{sort|08.2|8,200–5,200 BP}}
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| Northern Europe ([[Scandinavia]])
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| [[Kongemose culture]]
|  {{sort|08|8,000–7,200 BP}}
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| Northern Europe ([[Scandinavia]])
| Late Mesolithic
| [[Ertebølle culture|Ertebølle]]
|  {{sort|07.3|7,300–5,900 BP}}
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| Western Europe (Netherlands)
| Late Mesolithic
| [[Swifterbant culture|Swifterbant]]
| {{sort|07.3|7,300–5,400 BP}}
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|Western Europe (Portugal)
| Late Mesolithic
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|{{sort|07.3|7,600–5,500 BP}}
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