Wikibooks: Nordic History/The Stone Age
As the ice receded reindeer grazed on the plains of Denmark and southernmost Sweden while along the coast of western Sweden marine resources were exploited. This was the land of the tribes who hunted over territories 100 000 km² vast and lived in teepees on the tundra. On this land there was little...
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| Summary: | As the ice receded reindeer grazed on the plains of Denmark and southernmost Sweden while along the coast of western Sweden marine resources were exploited. This was the land of the tribes who hunted over territories 100 000 km² vast and lived in teepees on the tundra. On this land there was little forest but arctic white birch and rowan but the taiga slowly appeared. = Mesolithic = In the 7th millennium BC when the reindeer and their hunters had moved for northern Scandinavia forests had been established in the land. A culture called the lived in Denmark and southern Sweden and north of them in Norway and along the coast of western Sweden the who lived mostly along the shores of the thriving forests. Utilizing fire boats and stone tools enabled these Stone Age inhabitants to survive life in northern Europe. The northern hunter/gatherers followed the herds and the salmon runs moving south during the winters moving north again during the summers. These early peoples followed cultural traditions similar to those practiced throughout other regions in the far north – areas including modern Finland Russia and across the Bering Strait into the northernmost strip of North America (containing portions of today s Alaska and Canada). During the 6th millennium BC southern Scandinavia was clad in lush forests of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. In these forests roamed animals such as aurochs wisent moose and red deer. Now tribes that we call the lived off these animals. Like their predecessors they also hunted seals and fished in the rich waters. North of the Kongemose people lived other hunter gatherers in most of southern Norway and Sweden called the descendants of the . These cultures still hunted in the end of the 6th millennium BC when the Kongemose culture was replaced by the in the south. = Neolithic = [[thumb 120px Thick neck axe from [[Närke]] a [[flintstone]] axe characteristic of both the [[Funnelbeaker]] and the [[Pitted Ware culture]]s.]] During the 5th millennium BC the Ertebølle people learned ... |
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