Crossword-Solution: MESOLITHIC 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Archeolithic or archeozoic (primordial) age Paleolithic or paleozoic (primary) age Mesolithic or mesozoic (secondary) age Cenolithic or cenozoic (tertiary) age Anthropolithic or anthropozoic (quaternary) age 53.6 32.1 11.5 2.3 0.5 ——— 100.0 In any case, the “historical period” is an insignificant quantity compared with the vast length of the preceding ages, in which there was no question of human existence on our planet.

Piette found in the cavern of Mas d'Azil, of which the relics are, in part at least, palaeolithic, or "mesolithic," and of dateless antiquity.

Plesiosauri and Icthyosauri swarmed in the tepid marshes of the Mesolithic epoch, but, with the drying up of many of the inland seas, the Dinosauria--the monstrous land reptiles--gradually became the dominant type, while the Pterodactyls--the Saurians which developed bat-like wings--not only crawled on the earth, but flew through the air.

The derivation of birds from reptiles first took place in the Mesolithic epoch, and this moreover probably during the Trias."[14] In the vegetable kingdom this epoch also saw the pine and the palm-tree gradually displace the giant tree ferns.

Attempts have been made to bridge the gap by means of a "mesolithic" period ([Greek: mesos], middle); but it would not seem probable that the missing links will occur at all events so far north as Britain.