Statement 1 is not correct:The Mesolithic Age began around 8000 BCE. It was a transitional phase between the Palaeolithic Age and the Neolithic Age. There was a rise in temperature and the climate became warm and dry. The climatic changes affected human life and brought about changes in fauna and flora. The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.
Statement 2 is correct:Microliths are the predominating and the most common tool types of this cultural phase. Technologically, this is a continuation of types from the Upper Palaeolithic period. Microliths start occurring in the last phase of the Palaeolithic culture but they predominate in the Mesolithic culture. Microliths are described in terms of geometric and non-geometric shapes. Geometric ones are types such as trapeze, triangle, lunate or crescent. The non geometric types are named by the nature of blunting of the back, such as partly, fully or obliquely blunted blades or after their functions such as scraper, point, knife, blade, awl, burin and borer. Another type of tool used by the Mesolithic people is called the Macrolith These were bigger than the microliths. They were a continuation of the Upper Palaeolithic types such as scrapers. New types are axes and picks. These are considered as heavy-duty tools. They are made of stone, mostly flint.
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