The Komsa culture was a stone age culture of hunter-gatherers that existed in northern Norway from around 6000 BC. The culture is named after the Komsa mountain in the community of Alta, Finnmark, where the first remains of the culture were discovered in 1925. Stone Age fishing hook. ... In anthropology, the hunter-gatherer way of life is that led by certain societies of the Neolithic Era based on the exploitation of wild plants and animals. ... (7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – other millennia) Events c. ... The town and municipality Alta in the county of Norway, has 17,359 inhabitants as of January 1, 2003. ... Finnmark (Finnmárku in Sami) is a county in the extreme north of Norway, bordering Troms. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The Komsa are thought to have followed the Norwegian coastline when receding glaciation at the end of the last ice age opened up new areas for settlement. Similarities to contemporary cultures in the east seem to indicate that the Komsa moved into modern-day Finnmark from the northeast, possibly coming from Karelia or modern-day Finland. Glaciation, often called an ice age, is a geological phenomenon in which massive ice sheets form in the Arctic and Antarctic and advance toward the equator. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... Map showing the parts Karelia is traditionally divided into. ...

Archaeological evidence indicates that the Komsa culture was almost exclusively sea-oriented, living mainly off seal hunting and being able boatbuilders and fishermen. In comparison to southern Norway's contemporary Fosna culture, stone tools and other implements appear relatively crude. This has been explained with a paucity of flintstone in the region. subfamilies Otariidae Phocidae Odobenidae Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipedia, a family (sometimes a suborder or superfamily, depending on the classification scheme) of the order Carnivora. ... The Fosna culture was a mostly coastal stone age culture of hunter-gatherers that existed in mid-western Norway from around 8000 BC. The culture is named after the old name of the small city Kristiansund, where one of the major sites was discovered in 1909 (near Kvernberget mountain). ... Pebble beach made up of flint nodules eroded out of the nearby chalk cliffs, Cape Arkona, Rügen Flint (or flintstone) is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline silica rock with a glassy appearance. ...

The Komsa culture seems to have disappeared around 2000 BC, probably because around that time seals became extinct in the waters around northern Norway; however, as the region remained inhabited after their disappearance, it has been speculated that the Komsa people might be in some way related to the carver culture that produced the Rock carvings at Alta, and even that they might have been the ancestors of the Norwegian people. (Redirected from 2000 BC) (21st century BC - 20th century BC - 19th century BC - other centuries) (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC) Events 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt 2000 BC -- Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya. ... Detail from the rock carvings at Alta The Rock carvings at Alta are an archaeological site near the town of Alta in the county of Finnmark in northern Norway. ...

See also

• Fosna
• History of Norway