The Stone Age
15,000 years ago Scandinavia was covered in thick ice.
It was cold and no-one lived here.
But the climate changed.
It got warmer and the ice slowly began to melt
Head of a fish spear from the Stone Age
Big herds of animals came to Scandinavia.
Reindeer, wild horses and elk.
They were looking for new grazing land.
People followed the animals.
They lived from hunting.
The people who came here were not ape men.
They were the same kind of people as us.
The oldest traces of people found in Sweden
are about 14,000 years old.
Most of the objects that archaeologists find from this time are made of stone.
This is why this period is called the Stone Age.
This does not mean that all objects were made from stone.
Many tools were made from wood, bone and horn,
but things made from these materials do not last very long.
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