Maglemosian culture

Maglemosian (ca.

9500 BCE–6000 BCE) is the name given to a culture of the early Epipaleolithic period in Northern Europe.

In Scandinavia, the culture is succeeded by the Kongemose culture.

The actual name came from an archeological site in Denmark, named Maglemose at Mullerup on western Zealand, where the first settlement was found in 1900.

During the following century a long series of similar settlements were excavated from England to Poland and from Skåne in Sweden to northern France.The Maglemosian people live in forest and wetland environments using fishing and hunting tools made from wood, bone, and flint microliths.

Huts made of bark have been preserved, and the tools were made of flintstone, bone, and horn.

A characteristic of the culture are the sharply edged microliths of flintstone which were used for spear heads and arrow heads.

A notable feature is the Leister or Fish Spear.Sea levels in northern Europe did not reach current levels until almost 6000 BCE by which time they had inundated some territories inhabited by Maglemosian people.

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