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A HISTORY OF SWEDEN
CHAPTER I
THE PEEHISTORIC TIMES
A. THE STONE AGE
The Glacial Period. It is not definitely known how
long Sweden has been inhabited, but it is fairly well
known how long it has been habitable. There was a time
when a thick covering of ice spread over all northern
and central Europe, such as we still find in Greenland.
This time is known in geology as the Ice Age or the
Glacial Period.
Sweden’s First Inhabitants. This ice covering grad-
ually melted away so that today only a few remains of
this perpetual ice may be seen on the highest mountain
tops in Sweden. Some 15,000 years ago this ice cover-
ing had disappeared from the southern part of the
Scandinavian peninsula, making it fit for human habi-
tation, and some time after this we find the first traces
of human life there. As evidence of this, roughly
wrought flint implements have been found in the soil
of Skane. Earlier remains of hoes of reindeer’s horns
have been found in certain parts of Denmark. The
layers of earth in which these remains were imbedded
were formed shortly after the passing of the ice age
as proved by geological research. These finds indicate
that the earliest inhabitants of Sweden came by way
of Denmark. For a long time after the end of the ice
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