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Revision as of 22:41, 19 January 2024

Map of the general areas of the mesolithic cultures of Moellia in 12,000 BCE

Mesolithic Moellia, or Mesolithic Rhayna, encompasses the mesolithic in the Moellia region from the end of the Last Glaciation Period Peak 22,000 years ago, to the end of the Last Glacial Period in Moellia and the Neolithic Revolution in the current state of Rhayna in 11,700 BCE.

The mesolithic in Moellia is characterized by the massive retreat of human groups from the interior of the region to the increasingly bigger rivers and the basin of Lake Kryo, due to the raising temperatures and change of climate as the region enters into the Holocene interglacial period. It is theorized that the pressure of the raising population density, scarcity of vegetation and retreat of large mammals to the south out of the region triggered the development of microlithic technology, proto-cultures, and a change of life-style into hunter-gatherers.

Most mesolithic sites are found near water sources, although with a farther range than zones nowadays deserted, and although some of them present signs of pottery and textiles in the middle of the mesolithic, specially in the Southwestern Lithic Complex and the Tipo Valley Sphere, most settlements do not develop these technologies until the end of the mesolithic and the start of the Neolithic Revolution.

Cultures

Geographical range Culture Temporal range Notable sites/artifacts Wider region
Kaly Thea Island Kalythean
Mount Atzali/Northwestern

Continental Moellia (Rhayna)

Late Dymassian
Katharistis Basin Pylyn
Imisy Basin Nodosian Southwestern Lithic

Complex

Western Continental

Moellia (Rhayna)

Assaizi Southwestern Lithic

Complex

Northern Kryo Basin Western Mesarian Southwestern Lithic

Complex

Southern Kryo Basin Leproinian Southwestern Lithic

Complex

Northern Moellia (Alla-gy) North Mountainous

Culture

Apoala Basin Kleise
Southern Moellia (Alla-gy) Magnakean
Western Tipo Valley Pavleronian Tipo Valley Sphere
Eastern Bensea Basin Bensean Paleolithic Tipo Valley Sphere
Eastern Moellia (Nea-gy) Late Pitanian Tipo Valley Sphere
Mesaia Riverbed

Culture

Tipo Valley Sphere
Mikosian Tipo Valley Sphere
Tanensian