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A British school led by John Evans denied any need for an intermediate: the ages blended together like the colors of a rainbow, he said. Westropp's suggestion was immediately controversial. The additional "Mesolithic" category was added as an intermediate category by Hodder Westropp in 1866. The terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic" were introduced by John Lubbock in his work Pre-historic Times in 1865. Mesolithic societies are not seen as very complex, and burials are fairly simple in contrast, grandiose burial mounds are a mark of the Neolithic. The more permanent settlements tend to be close to the sea or inland waters offering a good supply of food. Depending on the region, some use of pottery and textiles may be found in sites allocated to the Mesolithic, but generally indications of agriculture are taken as marking transition into the Neolithic. The type of culture associated with the Mesolithic varies between areas, but it is associated with a decline in the group hunting of large animals in favour of a broader hunter-gatherer way of life, and the development of more sophisticated and typically smaller lithic tools and weapons than the heavy-chipped equivalents typical of the Paleolithic. The term is less used of areas further east, and not at all beyond Eurasia and North Africa. In Europe it spans roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BP in Southwest Asia (the Epipalaeolithic Near East) roughly 20,000 to 8,000 BP. It refers to the final period of hunter-gatherer cultures in Europe and Western Asia, between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Neolithic Revolution. The Mesolithic has different time spans in different parts of Eurasia. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside northern Europe, and for the corresponding period in the Levant and Caucasus. The Mesolithic ( Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle" λίθος, lithos "stone") is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.