The Nordic Stone Age refers to the Stone Age of Scandinavia. This is an overview: Stone Age fishing hook. ... Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ...

Upper Paleolithic

Main article: Upper Paleolithic

As the ice receded reindeer grazed on the plains of Denmark and southernmost Sweden. This was the land of the Ahrensburg culture, 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. The Upper Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. ... Categories: Stub | Buildings and structures | Survival skills ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. ... Binomial nomenclature Betula pubescens White Birch (Betula pubescens) is an abundant tree throughout northern Europe, northern Asia and also Greenland. ... This article is about the rowan tree; for other uses of the term, see Rowan (disambiguation). ... Taiga (pronounced , from Russian тайга́) is a biome characterized by its coniferous forests. ...

Mesolithic

Main article: 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 Maglemosian culture lived in Denmark and southern Sweden, and north of them, in Norway and most of southern Sweden, the Fosna-Hensbacka culture, 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 practised 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). The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the Middle Stone Age) is the period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. ... (8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – other millennia) Events Circa 7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South Asia Circa 6300 BC – The approximate date man reappears in the area New York Circa 6000 BC – Neolithic Age in Korea Circa 6000 BC – First traces of habitation... Stone Age fishing hook. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Satellite photo of the Bering Strait Nautical chart of the Bering Strait The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, the eastmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the American continent, about 85 km in width, with a depth of... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ...

During the 6th millennium, 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 Kongemose culture lived of 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 Nøstvet and Lihult cultures, descendants of the Fosna and Hensbacka cultures. These cultures still hunted, in the end of the 6th millennium when the Kongemose culture was replaced by the Ertebølle culture in the south. (5th millennium – 6th millennium – 7th millennium – other millennia) The sixth millennium is a period of time which will begin on January 1, 5001 and will end on December 31, 6000. ... Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests are a temperate and humid biome. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Bojanus, 1827 The aurochs (Bos taurus) is an extinct European mammal of the Bovidae family. ... Binomial name Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Wisent (pronounced vE-zent) is the European bison, species Bison bonasus. ... Binomial name Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758) A female moose. ... Binomial name Cervus elaphus Linnaeus,, 1758 Subspecies Numerous - see text. ... 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. ... (5th millennium – 6th millennium – 7th millennium – other millennia) The sixth millennium is a period of time which will begin on January 1, 5001 and will end on December 31, 6000. ... Map of European Neolithic at the apogee of Danubian expansion, c. ...

Neolithic

Main article: Neolithic

During the 5th millennium, the Ertebølle people learnt pottery from neighbouring tribes in the south, who had begun to cultivate the land and keep animals. Soon, they too started to cultivate the land and, ca 4000 BC, they became part of the megalithic Funnelbeaker culture. During the 4th millennium, these Funnelbeaker tribes expanded into Sweden up to Uppland. The Nøstvet and Lihult tribes learnt new technology from the advancing farmers, but not agriculture, and became the Pitted Ware cultures, towards the end of the 4th millennium. These Pitted Ware tribes halted the advance of the farmers and pushed them south into south-western Sweden, but some say that the farmers were not killed or chased away, but that they voluntarily joined the Pitted Ware culture and became part of them. At least one settlement appears to be mixed, the Alvastra pile-dwelling. The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ... (4th millennium – 5th millennium – 6th millennium – other millennia) The fifth millennium is a period of time which will begin on 1 January 4001 and will end on 31 December 5000. ... (5th millennium BC – 4th millennium BC – 3rd millennium BC - other millennia) Events City of Ur in Mesopotamia (40th century BC). ... Megalithic tomb, Mane Braz, Brittany A megalith is a large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument either alone or with other stones. ... The Funnelbeaker culture is the archeological designation for a late Neolithic culture in what is now northern Germany, the Netherlands, southern Scandinavia and Poland. ... (3rd millennium – 4th millennium – 5th millennium – other millennia) The fourth millennium is a period of time which will begin on Thursday, January 1, 3001 and will end on Sunday, December 31, 4000. ... Uppland is the name of a geographical region in Sweden, which can refer to: Uplandia, or Uppland - a historical Province of Sweden Uppsala County, or Uppsala län - a current County of Sweden Part of Stockholm County, or Stockholms län - a current County of Sweden Part of Västmanland County or Västmanlands... (3rd millennium – 4th millennium – 5th millennium – other millennia) The fourth millennium is a period of time which will begin on Thursday, January 1, 3001 and will end on Sunday, December 31, 4000. ...

It is not known what language these early Scandinavians spoke, but towards the end of the 3rd millenium, they were overrun by new tribes who many scholars think spoke Proto-Indo-European, the Battle-Axe culture. This new people advanced up to Uppland and the Oslofjord, and they probably provided the language that was the ancestor of the modern Scandinavian languages. These new tribes were individualistic and clearly patriarchal with the battle axe as a macho symbol. They were cattle herders and with them most of southern Scandinavia entered the neolithic. However, soon a new invention would arrive, that would usher in a time of cultural advance in Scandinavia, the Bronze Age. (2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – 4th millennium – other millennia) The third millennium is the third period of one thousand years in the Common Era. ... The Proto-Indo-Europeans are the hypothetical speakers of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language, a prehistoric people of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. ... The Oslofjord (Oslofjorden) is a fjord located on the south-east of Norway, stretching from Færder in the south to Oslo at the head. ...