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Sweden's southern third was part of the stock-keeping and agricultural Nordic Bronze Age Culture's area, most of it being peripheral to the culture's Danish centre. The period began in c. 1,700 BC with the start of bronze importation; first from Ireland and then increasingly from central Europe.
The Scandinavian Peninsula became ice-free around the end of the last ice age.The Nordic Stone Age begins at that time, with the Upper Paleolithic Ahrensburg culture, giving way to the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers by the 7th millennium BC (Maglemosian culture c. 7500–6000 BC, Kongemose culture c. 6000–5200 BC, Ertebølle culture c. 5300–3950 BC).
The Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland (Swedish: Världsarvet Hälsingegårdar) is a World Heritage Site inscribed on 1 July 2012 as Sweden's fifteenth entry on the list. Seven farmhouses erected in the 19th century were eventually selected to represent the most distinguished and well preserved examples of local architectural and decorative ...
Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art, a society working to document the carvings and running the Tanum Museum of Rock Carvings; Luukkonen, Ismo: Scandinavian Rock Art; Numerous photos (comments in russian) Bohstrom, Philippe (11 May 2016). "3600-year-old Swedish Axes Were Made With Copper From Cyprus". Haaretz
Flint-axes and vessels were also deposited in streams and lakes near the farmlands, and virtually all of Sweden's 10,000 flint axes that have been found from this culture were probably sacrificed in water. They also constructed large cult centres surrounded by pales, earthworks and moats. The largest one is found at Sarup on Fyn.
The Rock art in Sweden (Swedish: Hällbilder or Hällmålningar) is the richest artistic material from the north of prehistoric Europe. Older scholarship mostly saw it as evidence for the religious practices of the Nordic Bronze Age (c. 1500-500 BC). Newer research sees the art not only as depictions of cultic rituals but also as source ...
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Reindeer in tundra landscape. As the ice receded, reindeer grazed the emerging tundra plains of Denmark and southernmost Sweden.This was the era of the Hamburg culture, tribes who hunted in vast territories that spanned over 100,000 km 2, and lived as nomads in teepees, following the reindeer seasonal migrations across the barren tundra.