The Bronze age | 1800 – 500 BC
The main building blocks of bronze – copper and tin – are naturally rare in the Norwegian landscape. Therefore, the number of bronze objects found by Norwegian archaeologists is relatively small.
During the Bronze age, the difference between the farmers and the hunter-gatherers became more defined. External influence kept coming in, from what today is Denmark and Europe to the south, and Russia and Finland to the north-east.
It is in this era, that the Sami hunter-gatherer culture emerges. Rock carvings from the Bronze age give us information about people’s way of life and spiritual beliefs.
Norwegian history timeline
- The latest ice age
115,000-10,000 BC - The Stone age
10,000-1800 BC - The Bronze age
1800-500 BC - The Iron age
500 BC-AD 1050 - The High middle ages
AD 1050-1350 - The Late middle ages
AD 1350-1537 - The Early modern period
AD 1537-1814 - Norway reborn as a sovereign state
AD 1814 - Norway in union with Sweden
AD 1814-1905 - Full independence at last
AD 1905 - Prosperity, war and depression
AD 1905-1940 - World War 2 and occupation
AD 1940-1945 - The post World War 2 era
AD 1945-1970 - Transformation and neoliberalism
AD 1970-1990 - Technology and globalisation
AD 1990-today
BC = before Christ | AD = anno domini = after Christ
Main source: Store norske leksikon – snl.no
