!!!Mittelsteinzeit

Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic Period - 8000-6000/5000 B.C.), the period 
following the terminal part of the Paleolithic Period ( Prehistory,  
Old Stone Age). It constituted the transition to the Neolithic Period 
( New Stone Age). The Mesolithic Period is characterised by 
microliths, small geometrically shaped tools crafted from flint, which 
had shafts or handles of wood or bone. The earliest documented 
domesticated animal was the dog. Research into the period has been 
scarce. In Austria, finds have been made on Bisamberg hill (Vienna), 
Horn, Kamegg and Limberg (all Lower Austria), Hirschbichl in the 
Defereggen valley in East Tirol, Koblach (Vorarlberg) and the  
Zigeunerhoehle cave near Gratkorn (Styria).

!Literature
W. Antl-Weiser, Spaetpalaeolithikum und Mesolithikum, 
1993.


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