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A History of Sweden
age the Scandinavian peninsula and the Danish islands
formed a continuous land mass with the peninsula of
Jutland, making the Baltic Sea a fresh water lake.
The earliest inhabitants of Sweden were most likely
of a race different from that of the Swedes of today,
whose earliest ancestors seem to have arrived at a later
date.* Thanks to ar-
chaeological research
we know tolerably
well how these ancient
ancestors lived.
Let us take a look at
the country as it ap-
peared four thousand
or more years ago.
Nearly its whole sur-
face was then covered
with dense forests,
teeming with wild
animals of the chase.
Lakes and rivers were
then larger and more
numerous than now.
Inlets of the sea ex-
tended farther into the land. Large stretches of its
present fertile lands were then sea bottoms or sandy
wastes. The cultivated spots were small, and it re-
quired many days to go from one village to another.
r
The Dwellings of the Stone-age People. The best
known village site from the early stone-age days lies
Flint Ax from the Old Stone Aw, a<oti from
two hhh’H. Found in Ski’ini’. One-half si/c.
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