A world famous midden
The trash heaps of the Ertebølle Culture have been discovered at the bottom of the Liim Fjord in north-western Himmerland. Major excavations in 1893-97 and 1980-84 turned up one of Europe's largest shell heaps. Measuring 140 metres long, 20 metres wide and as…
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The end of the Mesolithic Period
The shell piles were definitively dated to the Stone Age in 1850. The discussion then emerged about…
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The end of the Mesolithic Period
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