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Archaeological culture · c. 9000–6000 BCE

Maglemosian culture

The Maglemosian people were Mesolithic hunters, fishers and gatherers of northern Europe's forests and wetlands after the Ice Age. Sea level was much lower, so Britain was joined to Denmark by Doggerland, now under the North Sea; the map includes that lost land.

They hunted and fished with tools of wood, bone, antler and small flint blades called microliths.

See Maglemosian culture on the map in 9000 BCE

On the map
9000–6000 BCE

How we know

No writing existed; tools of flint, bone, antler and wood from waterlogged sites are dated by radiocarbon.

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