What is Mesolithic age?

Mesolithic, also called Middle Stone Age, ancient cultural stage that existed between the Paleolithic (Old
Stone Age), with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic (New Stone Age), with its polished stone
tools. The Mesolithic period was about 10,000 B.C. to 8,000 B.C

What is the lifestyle during Mesolithic Age?

(Lifestyle during Mesolithic Age) (Stone tools used during Mesolithic Age)

People of this age lived on hunting, fishing, and food gathering initially but later on they also
domesticated animals. They used small stone tools, now also polished and sometimes crafted with
points and attached to antlers, bone or wood to serve as spears and arrows.

What are the artworks during Mesolithic period?

(Sample artworks during the Mesolithic Age)

During the Mesolithic period, humans developed cave paintings, engravings, and ceramics to reflect
their daily lives.
What are the tools used to create artworks during Mesolithic age?

(Venus Figurines carved out of soft stone)

Venus figurines were made out of soft stone (such as steatite, calcite, or limestone), bone or ivory, or
clay.

(Accessories made out of bones of animals)

Personal accessories and adornments were made from shell and bone.

(Sample of natural pigments) (Brushes made during the Mesolithic Age)

The materials used in the cave paintings were natural pigments, created by mixing ground up natural
elements such as dirt, red ochre, and animal blood, with animal fat, and saliva. They applied the paint
using a hand-made brush from a twig, and blow pipes, made from bird bones, to spray paint onto the
cave wall.
What are the techniques and skills used in making artwork during Mesolithic age?

(Humans looked more like stick-figures)

The painting technique varied - both in the painting tools adopted (feathers, reeds, pads/brushes) and
the colour pigments used, but generally representation was non-naturalistic and highly stylized. The
humans looked more like stick-figures or matchstick men. In fact, many of the men and women in
Mesolithic rock paintings look more like pictographs or petrograms than pictures. Other figures seen in
Mesolithic tribal art include various anthropomorphic hybrid figures, as well as X-ray style figures
characteristic of aboriginal rock art of the late Stone Age.