List of Mesolithic settlements explained

List of Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic settlements.

Mesolithic Europe

Name	Location	Culture	Period	Comment
Franchthi Cave	Argolis, Balkans		15,000 – 9,000 BP	Previously inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic, continuously inhabited into the Neolithic.	^[1]
Pulli settlement	Pärnu, Baltics	Kunda culture	10,800 – 7,800 BP		^[2]
Lepenski Vir	Serbia, Balkans	Iron Gates culture	11,500 - 8,000 BP		^[3]
Star Carr	North Yorkshire, Britain		11,300 - 10,480 BP
Howick house	Northumberland, Britain		9,600 - 9,500 BP		^[4]

Epipaleolithic Near East

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

See also

• List of Neolithic settlements

Notes and References

1. Sarah Gibbens, "Face of 9,000-Year-Old Teenager Reconstructed", National Geographic, 19 January 2018.
2. Early Holocene coastal settlements and palaeoenvironment on the shore of the Baltic Sea at Pärnu, southwestern Estonia . Siim . Veski . Atko . Heinsalu . Veiko . Klassen . Aivar . Kriiska . Lembi . Lõugas . Anneli . Poska . Ulla . Saluäär . Quaternary International . 130 . 1 . 2005 . 75–85 . 10.1016/j.quaint.2004.04.033 . 2020-03-03 . 2013-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131003135159/http://www.gi.ee/~veski/10916.pdf . dead .
3. News: LEPENSKI VIR – SCHELA CLADOVEI CULTURE'SCHRONOLOGY AND ITS INTERPRETATION . Rusu Aurelian, Brukenthal. Acta Musei, VI. 1, 2011 . 2011.
4. News: Britain's Oldest House?. Richards. Julian. 17 February 2011. bbc.co.uk. 5 May 2018. en.
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 . New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates . The Holocene . 27 July 2016 . 11 . 4 . 383–393 . 10.1191/095968301678302823 . 84930632 .
7. Book: Maisels, Charles Keith. Early Civilizations of the Old World: The Formative Histories of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China. 8 July 2011. 2001. Routledge. 978-0-415-10976-5. 96–.
8. Book: Mithen, Steven . After the ice : a global human history, 20.000 - 5.000 BC . 2006 . Harvard Univ. Press . Cambridge, Mass. . 978-0-674-01570-8 . 29 . 1st paperback . registration .