Ertebølle culture
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The Ertebølle culture is a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period. The culture was concentrated in Southern Scandinavia. It is named after the ty
'Blubber lamp'. Possibly fueled by whale or seal oil
Pottery
flake axe
A late Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer, buried seated, dated circa 7,000 BP, from Skateholm, near Trelleborg in southwest Sweden. Reconstruction by Oscar Nilsson, Trelleborgs Museum.
Mesolithic
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The Mesolithic is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside Northern Europe, and f
Ertebølle culture
…Ertebølle culture (c. 5,400 BCE – 3,950 BCE) (Danish pronunciation: ) is a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period. The culture was concentrated in Southern Scandinavia. It is named after the type site, a location in the small village of Ertebølle on Limfjorden…
Reconstruction of a "temporary" Mesolithic house in Ireland; waterside sites offered good food resources.
The Mesolithic begins during the latest Pleistocene, characterized by a progressive rise of temperatures, between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Neolithic Revolution during the Holocene. Evolution of temperature in the Post-Glacial period according to Greenland ice cores.
Mesolithic artifacts
The Shigir Idol, from the east of the Ural Mountains.