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Worsaae surmised that perhaps “this had been a sort of eating-place for the people of the neighborhood in the earliest prehistoric times”; [3] and further excavations indeed confirmed that the ancient shell heaps were signs of human prehistoric activity, being kitchen middens - Danish term køkkenmødding - and leftovers from their meals.
Prehistoric Denmark c. 6000 BC–700 AD. Kongemose culture c. 6000 BC–5200 BC; Ertebølle culture c. 5,300 BC ... Pride in the Danish language and culture increased ...
Mads Lidegaard (2004): "Hvad troede de på? – religiøse tanker i oldtid og vikingetid" [What did they believe in? – religious thoughts in ancient times and the Viking Age], Gyldendal, ISBN 87-02-02703-8 (in Danish) Mads Lidegaard (1915–2006) was a prolific writer, teacher and theologian from Denmark. Iben Skibsted Klæsøe, ed. (2010).
The culture of Denmark has a rich artistic and scientific heritage. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), the philosophical essays of Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), the short stories of Karen Blixen, penname Isak Dinesen, (1885–1962), the plays of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureate Henrik Pontoppidan and the dense ...
The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC.. The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Late Neolithic Dagger period, which is rooted in the Battle Axe culture (the Swedish-Norwegian Corded Ware variant), the Single Grave Culture (the north German and Danish ...
Prehistoric sites in Denmark (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Prehistory of Denmark" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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.
The Trundholm Sun Chariot, Denmark, Nordic Bronze Age, c. 1400 BC. The archaeology of Northern Europe studies the prehistory of Scandinavia and the adjacent North European Plain, roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Northern Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium.