It was a Mesolithic culture, but unusual in that it was sedentary, or semi-sedentary, before the introduction of agriculture.

The Paleolithic ended some 10,000-12,000 years ago to be succeeded by the Mesolithic culture.

Mesolithic cultures continued to occupy Denmark/south Sweden and the southern shores of the sea.

In Europe, Mesolithic cultures lived on almost until 3,000 B.C.

The Mesolithic culture can be set apart from that of the Palaeolithic in these ways:

Mesolithic culture, I would say--shaped tools, but no gardening.

A second theory proposes an autochthonous development out of the local Mesolithic cultures.

This mesolithic culture was known as the Balangoda Culture.

Tilwara is also an archeological site from where evidence for the Mesolithic culture have been excavated.

It may have been the richest hunting, fowling and fishing ground in Europe available to the Mesolithic culture of the time.