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  • 2 - The Stone and Bronze Ages

  • from PART I - THE GEOGRAPHY AND PREHISTORY OF SCANDINAVIA
  • Edited by Knut Helle, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    04 September 2003, pp 43-59

  • Summary

    This chapter deals with the life in Scandinavian region during the Stone Age and Bronze Age periods. The environment of the early hunters was open tundra where huge reindeer herds migrated seasonally and provided an easy source of meat. Agriculture and animal husbandry became important means of subsistence alongside hunting, fishing and gathering after 3100 BC. About 2300 BC a marked, not to say dramatic, cultural change occurred in southern Scandinavia. There are strong indications that the changes were caused by immigrants from the south. The result was a culture which has been named after its pottery, Corded Ware. In Norrland, northern Finland and Finnmark there was clearly a cultural, ethnic and technological continuity from the early Stone Age. Around 1800 BC, a flow of bronze objects reached southern Scandinavia, which were used as models for smelting and casting of bronze in local workshops.