List of Mesolithic settlements

List of Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic settlements.

Mesolithic Europe
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. [1]
Pulli settlement Pärnu, Baltics Kunda culture c. 10,800 – 7,800 BP [2]
Lepenski Vir Serbia, Balkans Iron Gates culture c. 11,500 - 8,000 BP [3]
Star Carr North Yorkshire, Britain c. 11,300 - 10,480 BP
Howick house Northumberland, Britain c. 9,600 - 9,500 BP [4]

Epipaleolithic Near East
Name Location Culture Period Comment Ref
Tell Qaramel Queiq, Levant Natufian c. 18,890 - 12,980 BP
Aammiq Beqaa Valley, Levant Natufian c. 14,000 – 12,200 BP Later occupied during the Ubaid period. [5]
Tell Abu Hureyra Mesopotamia Natufian c. 13,500 – 11,500 BP [6]
Beidha Jordan Valley, Levant Natufian c. 13,000 – 12,000 BP
Mureybet Mesopotamia Natufian c. 12,200 – 11,700 BP (Phase IA) Later occupied by the Khiamian and Mureybetian cultures. [7]
Hatula Judean Hills, Levant Natufian c. 12,150 – 11,320 BP Later inhabited by the Khiamian and Sultanian cultures. [8]
Jericho Jordan Valley, Levant Natufian c. 12,000 – 11,500 BP Succeeded by the Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement.
'Ain Mallaha Hula Valley, Levant Natufian c. 12,000 – 10,000 BP [9]

See also

References
  1. Sarah Gibbens, "Face of 9,000-Year-Old Teenager Reconstructed", National Geographic, 19 January 2018.
  2. http://www.gi.ee/~veski/10916.pdf
  3. "LEPENSKI VIR – SCHELA CLADOVEI CULTURE'SCHRONOLOGY AND ITS INTERPRETATION". Rusu Aurelian, Brukenthal. Acta Musei, VI. 1, 2011. 2011.
  4. Richards, Julian (17 February 2011). "Britain's Oldest House?". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  5. 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.
  6. Hillman, Gordon; Hedges, Robert; Moore, Andrew; Colledge, Susan; Pettitt, Paul (27 July 2016). "New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates". The Holocene. 11 (4): 383–393. doi:10.1191/095968301678302823.
  7. Ibáñez 2008b, pp. 663–664
  8. Maisels, Charles Keith (2001). Early Civilizations of the Old World: The Formative Histories of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China. Routledge. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-0-415-10976-5. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  9. Mithen, Steven (2006). After the ice : a global human history, 20.000 - 5.000 BC (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press. pp. 29. ISBN 978-0-674-01570-8.
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