Bromme culture
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The Bromme culture is a late Upper Paleolithic culture dated to the Alleröd Age, ca 9700 BC-9000 BC, a warmer spell between the Elder Dryas and the Younger Dryas, the last cold periods of the late Weichsel Glaciation.
At this time, the reindeer was the most important prey, but the Bromme people also hunted moose, wolverine and beaver. The landscape was consequently a combination of taiga and tundra.
The culture is named after a settlement at Bromme on western Zealand, and it is known from several settlements in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. In Sweden, it is known from the country's earliest known settlement at Segebro, near Malmö.
It is charactherized by sturdy lithic flakes that were used for all tools, primarily awls (sticklar), scrapers and skaftunge arrow heads. No stone axes have been found.
It is so similar to the later Ahrensburg culture that the name Lyngby culture has been proposed to the combination of the cultures as one and the same and that the Bromme culture is an older northern branch of the same culture as the Ahrensburg culture.
