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This stuff about flint economy, which was edited out with the new (and no doubt better and more detailed) account of the Stone Age needs to be fitted in again somewhere:
This part is older (not written by me) but should be incorporated into some Stone Age religion section, possibly at the main article on the Nordic Stone Age rather than here:
Is calling the Battle Axe " macho" really good writing... is it not more of a status symbol? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nixdorf ( talk • contribs) 18:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
That´s silly - it just about legendary figures of the Old Norse literature and nothing about archaeology.-- 84.251.16.234 17:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I came here wondering how the Sami people play into all this, but don't see a single explicit mention of the people in this article, although they are cursorily mentioned in a section of Sweden that links to this with Template:main. Would someone in the know please introduce mention of the Sami here? MrZaius talk 23:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was move to Scandinavian prehistory, per the discussion below. New redirects and some content alterations may be required, but I'll leave that up to the individual editors here. Dekimasu よ! 15:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I propose moving this page to Nordic Prehistory, since: (i) there are already other "Nordic" articles such as Nordic Stone Age and Nordic Bronze Age, (ii) it does not make sense to create articles for Prehistoric Norway, Prehistoric Denmark, Prehistoric Sapmi, etc. Labongo 12:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
This comment was moved from the above archived discussion. Labongo ( talk) 12:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I hope more information on the whole of Scandinavia will be put up in the future. as it is now there is only information about Sweden. I can see that there has been a solid discussion about a potential merging above, but however this turns out, we need info covering the areas of Denmark and Norway as well. And remember: the nations of Denmark, Sweden and Norway first came into existence at the end of the Viking Age, much later than pre-history. When these names are used, it is only to describe geographical locations.
RhinoMind ( talk) 18:13, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I have now inserted a missing information tag to the article. Let me document the reason for installing it.
It can sometimes be confusing what is actually meant when the word "Scandinavia" is mentioned. Scandinavia is a broader geographical area than the Scandinavian peninsula alone. It is important that this article include the pre-history of Scandinavia in the broadest sense possible. Mostly because pre-history is a cultural concept, not a purely geographical one. Also because it makes sense to gather all the information on the pre-history of the Scandinavian region in one place, or the meaning of the content would appear unnecessarily fragmented, as it is inter-related. RhinoMind ( talk) 00:58, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
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This stuff about flint economy, which was edited out with the new (and no doubt better and more detailed) account of the Stone Age needs to be fitted in again somewhere:
This part is older (not written by me) but should be incorporated into some Stone Age religion section, possibly at the main article on the Nordic Stone Age rather than here:
Is calling the Battle Axe " macho" really good writing... is it not more of a status symbol? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nixdorf ( talk • contribs) 18:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
That´s silly - it just about legendary figures of the Old Norse literature and nothing about archaeology.-- 84.251.16.234 17:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I came here wondering how the Sami people play into all this, but don't see a single explicit mention of the people in this article, although they are cursorily mentioned in a section of Sweden that links to this with Template:main. Would someone in the know please introduce mention of the Sami here? MrZaius talk 23:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was move to Scandinavian prehistory, per the discussion below. New redirects and some content alterations may be required, but I'll leave that up to the individual editors here. Dekimasu よ! 15:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I propose moving this page to Nordic Prehistory, since: (i) there are already other "Nordic" articles such as Nordic Stone Age and Nordic Bronze Age, (ii) it does not make sense to create articles for Prehistoric Norway, Prehistoric Denmark, Prehistoric Sapmi, etc. Labongo 12:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
This comment was moved from the above archived discussion. Labongo ( talk) 12:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I hope more information on the whole of Scandinavia will be put up in the future. as it is now there is only information about Sweden. I can see that there has been a solid discussion about a potential merging above, but however this turns out, we need info covering the areas of Denmark and Norway as well. And remember: the nations of Denmark, Sweden and Norway first came into existence at the end of the Viking Age, much later than pre-history. When these names are used, it is only to describe geographical locations.
RhinoMind ( talk) 18:13, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I have now inserted a missing information tag to the article. Let me document the reason for installing it.
It can sometimes be confusing what is actually meant when the word "Scandinavia" is mentioned. Scandinavia is a broader geographical area than the Scandinavian peninsula alone. It is important that this article include the pre-history of Scandinavia in the broadest sense possible. Mostly because pre-history is a cultural concept, not a purely geographical one. Also because it makes sense to gather all the information on the pre-history of the Scandinavian region in one place, or the meaning of the content would appear unnecessarily fragmented, as it is inter-related. RhinoMind ( talk) 00:58, 24 March 2016 (UTC)