Characteristics of the Mesolithic Period approx. 10, 000 - 8, 000 B.C.E.]

• Because of the warming climate, human beings began to come out of the caves more and more.
• Vegetation, and then forest, began to cover more of the landscape as the ice receded,
• Axes were invented that were able to chop down trees, fishing tackle became more elaborate, and the “bow” was invented.
• wall engravings, Notice the inclusion of more human forms and the more well developed/ accurately depicted profiles.