The Bromme culture ( da, Brommekultur) is a late

Upper Paleolithic The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene), according to some theories coin ...

culture dated to c. 11,600 to 9,800 cal BC, which corresponds to the second half of the

Allerød Oscillation The Allerød oscillation ( da, Allerødtiden) was a warm and moist global interstadial that occurred c.13,900 to 12,900 BP, nearly at the end of the Last Glacial Period. It raised temperatures in the northern Atlantic region to almost present-da ...

. At this time,

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 sub ...

was the most important prey, but the Bromme people also hunted

moose The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult ma ...

/elk,

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and beaver. The landscape was a combination of

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and

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. The culture is named after a settlement at

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on western

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, and it is known from several settlements in

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and

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. In Sweden, it is known from the country's earliest known settlement at Segebro, near

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. It is characterized by sturdy lithic flakes that were used for all tools, primarily awls (''{{lang, sv, sticklar''), scrapers, stone axes and tanged points The Bromme culture and the Ahrensburg culture are so similar that it has been proposed that they should be classed as one and the same, under the label Lyngby culture, with the Bromme culture being recognized as an older northern branch of the same culture as the Ahrensburg culture. Kultura lyngbijska

References

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