Talk:Monmouth in the Mesolithic period

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A fact from Monmouth in the Mesolithic period appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 May 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the discovery of Mesolithic microliths during gas main excavation in 2010 revealed that Monmouth was inhabited during the Middle Stone Age?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/May.

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To comply with similar articles elsewhere, would this not be better titled Monmouth in the Mesolithic period, or Prehistoric Monmouth? I'm not crazy about either title, or the current one, simply because "Monmouth" didn't exist then; but I think terms like "Stone Age" are verging towards the unencyclopedic now, aren't they? Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:11, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please, I'm an archaeologist and we don't used 'Middle Stone Age' - or 'Old' or 'New Stone Ages' either. It's been 'Mesolithic' for decades now, so the use of 'Middle Stone Age' here is distinctly archaic and misleading. Please change the title to Monmouth in the Mesolithic period. 86.133.208.48 (talk) 07:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As the article creator has consented here, I've moved the article. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:21, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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See this Victuallers (talk) 22:05, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]