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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 – 3,950 BC; Funnelbeaker culture c. c. 4300–2800 BC; Corded Ware culture c. 3000 BC – 2350 BC
Fish, seafood and meat are prominent parts of any traditional Danish dish. With a very long coastline and large number of smaller islands, Denmark has a long tradition of fishing and seafood takes a natural part of the Danish food tradition. The most commonly eaten fish and seafood are: [citation needed]
The prime burial tradition was cremation, but the third century and thereafter saw an increase in inhumation. Great ships made for rowing have been found from the 4th century in Nydam Mose in southern Denmark. The combined population of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 1 AD is estimated have been approximately 750,000. [12]
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 ...
In 1915, a mysterious ancient skeleton dubbed the “Vittrup Man” was found preserved in a peat bog in northwest Denmark. Now, over a century later, researchers have finally pieced together the ...
Nordic food culture in the south and east of the region comprises a tradition of baking softer rye breads. In Denmark and especially in Sweden, the soft rye bread is sweeter; in Finland, a drier sour rye bread type is traditional. Iceland has for the past hundred years imported grain to make bread, as grain is not cultivated on the island.
Ancient DNA analysis has found the people who produced the Funnelbeaker culture to be genetically different from earlier hunter-gather inhabitants of the region, and are instead closely related to other European Neolithic farmers, who ultimately traced most of their ancestry from early farmers in Anatolia, with some admixture from European ...