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Was there really a Neolithic in Norway?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher Prescott
Christopher Prescott*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, Haakon Sheteligs plass 3, 5007 Bergen, Norway
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Abstract

For temperate Europe, the transition to the Neolithic is still both defined by a shift from a hunter-gatherer to a farming economy and archaeologically recognized by its characteristic artefacts of pottery and polished-stone axes. But what should be the criteria in the far north of Nordic Europe, where the definition of a Neolithic is a less straightforward issue?

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996, pp. 77 - 87
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