Human settlement in Estonia became possible eleven…
6525 BCE to 6382 BCE
Human settlement in Estonia became possible eleven thousand to thirteen thousand years ago, when the ice from the last glacial era melted away.
The oldest known settlement in Estonia is the Pulli settlement, which was located on the banks of the river Pärnu, near the town of Sindi, in southwestern Estonia.
According to radiocarbon dating, it was settled around eleven thousand years ago, at the beginning of the ninth millennium BCE.
Evidence has been found of hunting and fishing communities existing around 6500 BCE near the town of Kunda in northern Estonia.
Bone and stone artifacts similar to those found at Kunda have been discovered elsewhere in Estonia, as well as in Latvia, northern Lithuania and in southern Finland.
The Kunda culture belongs to the middle stone age, or Mesolithic period.
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