List of Mesolithic settlements

List of Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic settlements.

Mesolithic Europe

NameLocationCulturePeriodCommentFranchthi CaveArgolis, Balkans 15,000 – 9,000 BPPreviously inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic, continuously inhabited into the Neolithic.Sarah Gibbens, "Face of 9,000-Year-Old Teenager Reconstructed", National Geographic, 19 January 2018.Pulli settlementPärnu, BalticsKunda culture 10,800 – 7,800 BPLepenski VirSerbia, BalkansIron Gates culture 11,500 - 8,000 BPStar CarrNorth Yorkshire, Britain 11,300 - 10,480 BPHowick houseNorthumberland, Britain 9,600 - 9,500 BP

Epipaleolithic Near East

NameLocationCulturePeriodCommentRefTell QaramelQueiq, LevantNatufian 18,890 - 12,980 BPAammiqBeqaa Valley, LevantNatufian 14,000 – 12,200 BPLater 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 HureyraMesopotamiaNatufian 13,500 – 11,500 BPBeidhaJordan Valley, LevantNatufian 13,000 – 12,000 BPMureybetMesopotamiaNatufian 12,200 – 11,700 BP(Phase IA) Later occupied by the Khiamian and Mureybetian cultures.HatulaJudean Hills, LevantNatufian 12,150 – 11,320 BPLater inhabited by the Khiamian and Sultanian cultures.JerichoJordan Valley, LevantNatufian 12,000 – 11,500 BPSucceeded by the Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement.ʿAin MallahaHula Valley, LevantNatufian 12,000 – 10,000 BP

See also List of Neolithic settlements

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