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    The terms "Paleolithic", "Neolithic", and "Mesolithic" were introduced in the mid-19th century to categorize prehistoric time periods. While "Mesolithic" was proposed as an intermediate category between Paleolithic and Neolithic, this caused some controversy. By the 20th century, as more data was collected, it became clear that a transitional period between Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic agricultural societies did exist. However, debate continues over whether to use the term "Mesolithic" or "Epipaleolithic" to describe this intermediate time period, and definitions of these terms vary between archaeological sub-disciplines and regions.

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    The terms "Paleolithic", "Neolithic", and "Mesolithic" were introduced in the mid-19th century to categorize prehistoric time periods. While "Mesolithic" was proposed as an intermediate category between Paleolithic and Neolithic, this caused some controversy. By the 20th century, as more data was collected, it became clear that a transitional period between Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic agricultural societies did exist. However, debate continues over whether to use the term "Mesolithic" or "Epipaleolithic" to describe this intermediate time period, and definitions of these terms vary between archaeological sub-disciplines and regions.

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    The terms "Paleolithic", "Neolithic", and "Mesolithic" were introduced in the mid-19th century to categorize prehistoric time periods. While "Mesolithic" was proposed as an intermediate category between Paleolithic and Neolithic, this caused some controversy. By the 20th century, as more data was collected, it became clear that a transitional period between Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic agricultural societies did exist. However, debate continues over whether to use the term "Mesolithic" or "Epipaleolithic" to describe this intermediate time period, and definitions of these terms vary between archaeological sub-disciplines and regions.

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    The terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic" were introduced by John Lubbock in his work Pre-historic

    Times in 1865. The additional "Mesolithic" category was added as an intermediate category by
    Hodder Westropp in 1866. Westropp's suggestion was immediately controversial. A British school
    led by John Evans denied any need for an intermediate: the ages blended together like the colors of
    a rainbow, he said. A European school led by Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet asserted that there
    was a gap between the earlier and later.
    Edouard Piette claimed to have filled the gap with his naming of the Azilian Culture. Knut
    Stjerna offered an alternative in the "Epipaleolithic", suggesting a final phase of the Paleolithic rather
    than an intermediate age in its own right inserted between the Paleolithic and Neolithic.
    By the time of Vere Gordon Childe's work, The Dawn of Europe (1947), which affirms the Mesolithic,
    sufficient data had been collected to determine that a transitional period between the Paleolithic and
    the Neolithic was indeed a useful concept.[2] However, the terms "Mesolithic" and "Epipalaeolitic"
    remain in competition, with varying conventions of usage. In the archaeology of Northern Europe, for
    example for archaeological sites in Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, Ukraine, and Russia, the
    term "Mesolithic" is almost always used. In the archaeology of other areas, the term "Epipaleolithic"
    may be preferred by most authors, or there may be divergences between authors over which term to
    use or what meaning to assign to each. In the New World, neither term is used (except provisionally
    in the Arctic).
    "Epipaleolithic" is sometimes also used alongside "Mesolithic" for the final end of the Upper
    Paleolithic immediately followed by the Mesolithic.[3] As "Mesolithic" suggests an intermediate period,
    followed by the Neolithic, some authors prefer the term "Epipaleolithic" for hunter-gatherer cultures
    who are not succeeded by agricultural traditions, reserving "Mesolithic" for cultures who are clearly
    succeeded by the Neolithic Revolution, such as the Natufian culture. Other authors use "Mesolithic"
    as a generic term for hunter-gatherer cultures after the Last Glacial Maximum, whether they are
    transitional towards agriculture or not. In addition, terminology appears to differ between
    archaeological sub-disciplines, with "Mesolithic" being widely used in European archaeology, while
    "Epipalaeolithic" is more common in Near Eastern archaeology.

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