{"id":13731,"date":"2014-02-13T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T23:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=13731"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T21:21:19","slug":"the-mesolithic-period","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/the-mesolithic-period\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mesolithic Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>When Was the Mesolithic Period?<\/h1>\n<p>The Mesolithic Period (The Middle Stone Age) began about 10,000 years ago and ended when farming became a regular practice. The start and end dates of this period vary by geographical region, but it falls between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. During the Paleolithic Period, only hunting and gathering occurred, and during the Neolithic, domestication of plants and animals occurred.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"The Mesolithic Period\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_2P6WkJClsbM\"><div id=\"lyte_2P6WkJClsbM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2P6WkJClsbM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">The Mesolithic Period<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2P6WkJClsbM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2P6WkJClsbM%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"The Mesolithic Period\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Was the Mesolithic Period? The Mesolithic Period (The Middle Stone Age) began about 10,000 years ago and ended when farming became a regular practice. The start and end dates of this period vary by geographical region, but it falls between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. During the Paleolithic Period, only hunting and gathering occurred, &#8230; <a title=\"The Mesolithic Period\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/the-mesolithic-period\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Mesolithic Period\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13731","page","type-page","status-publish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55157,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13731\/revisions\/55157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}