• Human habitation of present-day Sweden began c. 12000 BC. The earliest known people belonged to the Bromme culture of the Late Palaeolithic, spreading...
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    The history of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps. From as early as 12000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout...
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    from 55°N to 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since prehistoric times, c. 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats (Swedish: Götar) and Swedes (Svear)...
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    Swedish art refers to the visual arts produced in Sweden or by Swedish artists. Sweden has existed as a country for over 1,000 years, and for times before...
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    Anatolia. In Asia and Australasia, prehistoric archaeology began in China in the 1920s with the work of amateur Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson...
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  • Swedish military history encompasses the military engagements and strategic developments of Sweden from prehistoric times to the present day. As a significant...
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    Ättestupa (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
    supposedly denotes sites where ritual senicide took place during pagan Norse prehistoric times, whereby elderly people threw themselves, or were thrown, to their...
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    and began the period of Roman Britain. Prehistoric Europe Prehistoric Scotland Prehistoric Wales Prehistoric Cornwall Boxgrove Gough's Cave Genetic history...
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    Prehistoric Europe refers to Europe before the start of written records, beginning in the Lower Paleolithic. As history progresses, considerable regional...
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  • "Prehistoric Ice Man" is the eighteenth and final episode of the second season of the American animated television series South Park. The 31st episode...
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    lands to the north on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia. In Sweden's prehistoric times, Sweden was largely limited to Svealand and southern Norrland, while...
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    Prehistoric art In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological...
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    to be the beginning of Sweden, as we know it today. Sami history Prehistoric Sweden Günther, Torsten; Malmström, Helena; Svensson, Emma M.; Omrak, Ayça;...
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    Bohuslän (category Provinces of Sweden)
    2016 History of Sweden Prehistoric Sweden (9,000 BCE–800 CE: Stone and Bronze Ages) Nordic Stone Age Nordic Bronze Age History of Sweden (800–1521 CE) (Viking...
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  • Prehistoric technology is technology that predates recorded history. History is the study of the past using written records. Anything prior to the first...
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    is now called prehistoric art. For fuller lists see Art of the Upper Paleolithic, Art of the Middle Paleolithic, and Category:Prehistoric art and its many...
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  • would have drained away very quickly. In the Sub-Cambrian peneplain in Sweden, for example, maximum depth of kaolinitization by Neoproterozoic weathering...
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  • In Swedish and Finnish history, the Age of Liberty (Swedish: frihetstiden; Finnish: vapauden aika) was a period that saw parliamentary governance, increasing...
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  • The International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology (French: Congrès international d'anthropologie et d'archéologie préhistoriques)...
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    The Swedish Empire or the Age of Greatness (Swedish: stormaktstiden) was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries...
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    had kings since prehistoric times. As early as the 1st century CE, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the order of Swedish regnal succession...
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  • Prehistoric music (previously called primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning...
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  • The early Vasa era is a period in Swedish history that lasted between 1523–1611. It began with the reconquest of Stockholm by Gustav Vasa and his men...
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    Sweden maintained its policy of neutrality during World War II. When the war began on 1 September 1939, the fate of Sweden was unclear. But by a combination...
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    legendary kings of Sweden (Swedish: sagokonungar, sagokungar, lit. 'saga kings / fairy tale kings') according to legends were rulers of Sweden and the Swedes...
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    Nordic countries (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
    includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the...
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  • Swedish pre-history ends around 800 AD, when the Viking Age begins and written sources are available. The Viking Age lasted until the mid-11th century...
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    period are later than for much of Europe and all of the Near East. The prehistoric period covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and...
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    Tumlehed rock painting (category Archaeological sites in Sweden)
    i Tumlehed) is a prehistoric rock art pictograph site, located in Tumlehed on the island of Hisingen, Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden. It is the southernmost...
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    Prehistoric religion is the religious practice of prehistoric cultures. Prehistory, the period before written records, makes up the bulk of human experience;...
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