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Why didn't Westropp's ‘Mesolithic’ catch on in 1872?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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A defined ‘Mesolithic’ era is a fixture in the cultural sequences of European prehistory — though not of other regions of the world. Why and how did the entity come to be invented, and to take just that form?
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