The National Museum of Denmark hosts a website with information on the Mesolithic period at https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-mesolithic-period/

Fascinating information on Star Carr, a Mesolithic site in Britain, can be found on the Star Carr Archaeology Project website at http://www.starcarr.com/index.html. Check out the gallery and films.  

For information on Archaic cultures of North America and photographs of artifacts, check out some of the following websites.

On the topic of agricultural origins, the National Science Foundation has a website on the Future of Food that includes the Nature and Timing of Agricultural Domestication https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/food_supply/student_materials/1134

The UCL Institute of Archaeology’s Archaeology International features the article Comparing Pathways to Agriculture on their website at https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1808/, including illustrations and additional sources.

ThoughtCo.com has a website on Natufian hunter-gatherers at https://www.thoughtco.com/natufian-period-hunter-gatherers-171958 and another on plant domestication at https://www.thoughtco.com/plant-domestication-table-dates-places-170638 with an interactive table of dates and places around the world related to plant domestication. While you’re there, also check out https://www.thoughtco.com/three-sisters-american-farming-173034

For a virtual visit to Banpo, an early Neolithic site in China, visit the Banpo Museum at http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/banpo.htm

Eupedia.com provides a Timeline of plant and animal domestication at https://www.eupedia.com/history/timeline_of_plant_and_animal_domestication.shtml

For a summary of animal domestication, see History World’s History of the Domestication of Animals at http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab57.

The American Museum of Natural History has a Domestication Timeline as part of their Horse exhibition, at https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/horse/domesticating-horses/domestication-timeline

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