British-developed bronze flat-axe from Selchausdal, northwest Zealand (NM B5310, photo: Nørgaard). The 20-cm-long axe has a geometric decoration covering the surface. Low-impurity copper is alloyed with 10% Sn. Scandinavia holds the largest proportion of British type axes outside the British Isles 2000-1700 BC. Credit: Heide W. Nørgaard (2019)
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Bump for after work.
But... But... They didn’t even know how to float and leave their lands towards the south until the the 700s AD. So how could this be?
I think they were of the first seafaring cultures if not the first, and traveling up rivers like the Volga to the Caspian sea long before 3000 BC during the Ertebølle culture. This find indicates travel up the Vistula river south to Slovakia as early as 2000 BC, but I suspect they were up this river and others trading long before the Bronze age. Maybe as early as 5000 BC.
Possibly even a short land hop from the Volga to the Don and into the Black sea and the Mediterranean long before it is thought. In fact these areas are supposed to be from where they originated and migrated north to Scandinavia. And by water would have been the easiest way from the very beginning.
I think the earliest Scandinavian cultures were much more than just simple hunter gatherers. Their dependence and demand on the sea for sustenance was far too great, especially in the winter. They were hunter gatherers who knew how to float before other cultures had need to learn how to float.
I really think Thor Heyerdahl was absolutely right.
https://elementamundi.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/origins-of-the-norse-gods/
http://insearchoflostplaces.com/2017/09/gobustan-azerbaijan/
