Europe's Last Hunter-Gatherers | Pitted Ware Culture

Existing from about 3500 BC to 2300 BC this was a hunter-gatherer-fisher culture of southern Scandinavia, thriving along the coasts of Sweden, the Danish Islands, Jutland, and a bit of Norway.

The Pitted Ware people were maritime hunters who lived separately to the Neolithic farmers who dwelled inland in the same regions.

They were a genetically homogeneous and distinct population descended from earlier Mesolithic Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers.

So what happened to the last hunter-gatherers of Europe?

(The Pitted Ware culture appear in my novel Thunderer: Gods of Bronze 2. In the story they're called the Seal People.)

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Arrowheads as indicators of interpersonal violence and group identity
among the Neolithic Pitted Ware hunters of southwestern Scandinavia - Rune Iversen (2016)
Trade, immiserising growth and the long-term neolithisation process
of the Pitted Ware Culture - Serge Svizzero (2015)
Pitted ware culture: Isotopic evidence for contact between Sweden and
Denmark across the Kattegat in the Middle Neolithic, ca. 3000 BC - Price, Klassen, Sjogren (2020)

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