File Vistehola2.jpg tright thumb 300 px Svarth l p Viste Svarthola no Svarthola Vistehola is a cave which is located in Viste , 10 km northwest of Stavanger , in Randaberg municipality, Rogaland county, Norway . ref http www.snl.no Vistehulen Vistehulen Store norske leksikon ref History During the Stone Age it was the main shelter for a group of about 25 people from around 6000 BC. These people were mainly hunter gatherers , but from around 4000 BC they also started with agriculture . Stone Age people of Vistehola can be characterized as wild boar hunters. Bones of moose and seals were also found. From around 2000 BC, their main activity was farming. The site was first studied in 1907 and 1910, subsequent 1939 and 1941. Discovery material is extremely well preserved and provide important information about how our predecessors lived in the Stone Age, fror between 6 000 and 8 000 years ago. Cultural layers form a total of four periods of different settlement. The greater discovery group includes hunting and fishing implements of stone, antler and bone meal as well as residues shells and precious. The youngest settlement stems from the Iron Age . The others are from older and younger Stone Age Mesolithic and Neolithic . The cave houses an inhabited area of approximately 100 square meters and is located about 250 meters from today s shoreline. Excavation of the site revealed implement waste and also traces of funerals. At the east wall of the cave was found a skeleton of a 15 year old boy who lived about 7,500 years ago. It is one of the oldest finds of human remains in Norway. ref http www.bygdebladet.no modules module 123 proxy.asp?C 90&I 33134&D 2 Oppdag Vistehola Bygdebladet, 03.06.2009 ref Gallery gallery File Vistehola.jpg Entrance to the cave File Vistehola3.jpg Interior of the cave File Vistehola4.jpg Ceiling of the cave gallery References reflist Other sources Hagen ... Norway hist stub Rogaland geo stub sh Svarthola ... more details
Millenniumbox 7 During the 7th millennium BC , agriculture spreads from Anatolia to the Balkans . World population was essentially stable at around 5 million people, living mostly scattered across the globe in small hunting gathering tribes. In the agricultural communities of the Middle East , the cow was domesticated and use of pottery became common, spreading to Europe and South Asia , and the first metal gold and copper ornaments were made. Cultures File Musee de la bible et Terre Sainte 001.JPG thumb This stone mask from the pre ceramic neolithic period dates to 7000 BC and is probably the oldest mask in the world Mus e de la bible et Terre Sainte Image CatalHoyukSouthArea.JPG thumb 300px right Excavations at the South Area of atal H y k Image 7th millennium BC sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.jpg thumb right 300px 7th millennium BC sculptures rocks from the Middle East found in modern day United States at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Neolithic c. 7000 BC Beginning of the Peiligang culture in China . c. 7000 BC Agriculture and neolithic settlement at Mehrgarh , in current day Balochistan Pakistan Baluchistan , Pakistan . c. 7000 BC Agriculture among the Papuan peoples of New Guinea ref Encyclop dia Britannica , Melanesian cultures ref c. 7000 BC 600 BC Elam . c. 7000 BC Elam becomes farming region. c. 7000 BC 6000 BC Figure from Ain Ghazal , Jordan , was made. It is now in National Museum , Amman , Jordan . c. 6850 4800 BC Advanced agriculture and a very early use of pottery by the Sesclo culture in Thessaly , Greece . c. 6500 BC Paleolithic period ended. Neolithic period started in China. c. 6500 BC Beginning of the Houli culture in China. c. 6500 BC 5500 BC atalh y k , Turkey . Inhabitants traded obsidian . c. 5000 inhabitants. c. 6200 BC Beginning of the Xinglongwa culture in China. c. 6000 BC Beginning of the Cishan culture in China. c. 6000 BC First traces of habitation of the Svarthola cave in Norway . Inventions, disc ... more details
File Anton Wilhelm Br gger.jpg thumb Anton Wilhelm Br gger for the book printer Anton Wilhelm Br gger printer Anton Wilhelm Br gger 11 October 1884 29 August 1951 was a Norway Norwegian archaeologist. Personal life He was born in Stockholm as a son of professor of geology Waldemar Christofer Br gger geologist Waldemar Christofer Br gger 1851 1940 and Antonie Scheel Siewers 1854 1933 . ref name nbl cite encyclopedia year title Anton Wilhelm Br gger encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon first Bergljot last Solberg editor Knut Helle Helle, Knut publisher Kunnskapsforlaget location Oslo url http www.snl.no .nbl biografi Anton Wilhelm Br C3 B8gger utdypning E2 80 93 1 language Norwegian accessdate 20 November 2009 ref He was a grandson of the book printer Anton Wilhelm Br gger printer Anton Wilhelm Br gger . ref name snl2 cite encyclopedia year 2007 title Br gger encyclopedia Store norske leksikon editor Henriksen, Petter publisher Kunnskapsforlaget location Oslo url http www.snl.no Br C3 B8gger language Norwegian accessdate 21 November 2009 ref In September 1909 he married Inger Ursin 1882 1941 . ref name nbl He had the sons Waldemar Christofer Br gger writer Waldemar Christofer Br gger 1911 1991 and Niels Christian Br gger 1914 1966 , and through the former, the grandson Jan Br gger . ref name snl2 Career Br gger examen artium finished his secondary education in 1903, but his higher education was sporadic. Without a formal examination, he wrote the paper xer av N stvettypen , which was released in 1905 by the Norwegian Geological Survey . ref name nbl He participated in the archaeological studies of Svarthola outside Stavanger, and wrote a report from the first kitchen left over heap from early Stone Age found in Norway, published in the annals of Stavanger Museum for 1907. ref name salmonsens awb cite encyclopedia title Br gger, Anton Wilhelm first K.V. last Hammer encyclopedia Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon url http runeberg.org salmonsen 2 4 0204.html language D ... more details
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