Mesolithic Britain

Mesolithic

The older view of Mesolithic Britain as monotonous and unchanging, with the endless repetition of seasonal rounds is now being replaced with a more complex picture. Different periods of Mesolithic occupation in Britain are distinguished by the use of differently shaped microlith (small lithic pieces used as spear tips and arrowheads) technology, though the chronology of a number of different British microlith industries is currently poorly resolved. During the earliest part of the Mesolithic, evidence of occupation of Britain is concentrated in the drainage basin of the Thames in Southern England, and in the northeast of England, including the important Star Carr site in North Yorkshire.