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Why didn't Westropp's ‘Mesolithic’ catch on in 1872?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Rowley-Conwy
Peter Rowley-Conwy*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, Science Site, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, England
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A defined ‘Mesolithic’ era is a fixture in the cultural sequences of European prehistory — though not of other regions of the world. Why and how did the entity come to be invented, and to take just that form?

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996, pp. 940 - 944
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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