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PREHISTORIC PERIODS
The earliest evidences of human habitation that are found in
Norwegian soil, show us a people that have not known the
use of metals, and have, in their stead, employed stone, bone,
horn and wood for their weapons and tools. When this people
came to Norway cannot with certainty be said, but it must, at any
rate, in all probability have been at least 4000 or 5000 years ago.
The first inhabitants of Norway immigrated through Sweden and
Denmark; and there is no ground for supposing that the original
inhabitants have subsequently been mixed up to any considerable extent
with new elements. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and part of
Germany, together form an archaeological province, that is to say, in
these countries the same types of antiquities, and the same periods,
are found again. Every new influence has then naturally come
last to Norway.
The palaeolithic period is not represented in Scandinavia. Of
the earlier part of the neolithic period, which is represented in
Denmark by the kitchen-middens there are almost no remains in
Norway; but antiquities from the latter part of the neolithic age have been
found, though not in great numbers, all over the country, up to far
within the arctic circle. That Norway at this time had a settled
population is proved by the fact that in several places, the so-called
workshops of the stone age have been found, i.e. places where the
quantities of fragments of stone strewn around, and finished and
half-finished tools and weapons, show that quite a wholesale
manufacture of implements and other similar articles has been carried
on in the stone age.
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