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common in the shell-mound period, which represents the transition from 

 the Paleolithic to the Neolithic. (5) The first race of men that came to 

 Sweden, hunting the reindeer and other animals following the retiring 

 ice border, must have been the dolichocephalic Cro-Magnon race of 

 central Europe. No new immigrations of other races seem to have 

 occurred, and the conclusion is reached, and supported by many facts, 

 that the Cro-Magnon man is the ancestor of the present-day Swedes. 



The important events in the chronology of Scandinavian cultures ap- 

 pear in the following table : 



Chronology of Scandinavian Cultures 



Approximate chronology of the 

 Paleolithic, Neolithic, Cop- 

 per, and Bronze cultures of 

 western Asia and Europe. 

 These dates are largely con- 

 jectural and may be greatly 

 modified by future dis- 

 coveries. 



Age of Bronze in central 

 Europe, France, Spain 



Horse domesticated in the 

 Orient 



> 



Copper used in central Europe 



and France 



Age of Bronze in Troy, Greece, 



and Sicily. 

 Age of Bronze in Egypt and"! 



Chaldea I 



Copper used in Troy, Greece, ' 



Sicily, Hungary, and Spain . . 

 Copper used at Anau, Tur-' 



kestan 



Copper used in Egypt and 



Chaldea 



Archeologic chronology of 

 southern Scandinavia as given 

 to the author by Oscar 

 Montelius in the summer of 

 1921, slightly modified by the 

 more recent determinations 

 of De Geer and Antevs that 

 the ice retreated from central 

 Scania not earlier than 11,500 

 B. C. 



B. C. 



2000 Age of Bronze. 



2200-1700 J 



r Stone cists. Inferior pot- 

 tery. - 



First appearance of bronze 

 in Sweden, 



2500 

 3000 



4000 



5000 

 6000 



Passage graves. Painted pot- 

 tery. First appearance of 

 copper. 



Pearliest Scandinavian skull 

 of Nordic type. 



Dolmens — round or rectangu- 

 lar. 



rDawn of the Neolithic, no 

 J Megalithic tombs, stone 

 axes developed from pic. 



Shell mound and Campignian 

 cultures. Stag Period. 



