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Jan 10, 2018 · Our interdisciplinary research team combined genetic and archaeological data with reconstructions of the ice sheets to investigate the earliest people of the Scandinavian peninsula.
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Danes (Danish: danskere, pronounced [ˈtænskɐɐ]) are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural.
Learn about Denmark history from its first Stone Age residents to the fascinating, preserved bog-men of the Bronze Age, on through the era of the Vikings and Medieval Europe right up to the present in this brief history of Denmark!
The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, and the Scanian provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.
The earliest certain signs of human presence in today’s Denmark are from the Old Stone Age approx. 10,000 years ago. The country’s early history is characterized by the change between phases of expansion in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, and occasionally these periods of disintegration and civil wars.
People lived in Denmark more than 100,000 years ago, but probably had to leave because of the ice age. Traces of permanent human habitation in Denmark exist from around 12,000 BC. Rich grave finds from the Viking era (800-1050) reveal active Danish participation in Viking explorations.
Mar 31, 2023 · The name ''Denmark'' is traced to the Dane people, a Germanic group whose name was first recorded in the mid-500s. Eventually, the name Dane came to describe all the people of...
