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Norman Madsen's Danish and Swiss Genealogy - Danish History Page |
 | | The first humans arrived on the island about 10,000 years ago; this was at the end of the last Ice Age via a peninsula which at that time connected the island to the continent. |
| | Around 4000 BCE a shift from hunter-gatherer to agriculture took place in Northern Europe. |
| | The archealogical remnants tell of a closer connection to Skåne, Øland, Gotland, and to the Baltic coast to the south of Bornholm (northern Germany and Poland). |
| www3.sympatico.ca /colin.swift/history.htm (10201 words) |
