‘A Discovery of Quite Exceptional Proportions’: Controversies in the Wake of Anders Nummedal’s Discoveries of Norway’s First Inhabitants

Around the beginning of the twentieth century archaeologists believed that Norway was not inhabited until the Late Stone Age. In 1909 two pieces of flint, found by the school-teacher Anders Nummedal, launched an extensive debate about the prehistory of Norway, which in time led to the acknowledgemen...

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Main Authors: Heidi Mjelva Breivik, Ellen Grav Ellingsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2014-04-01
Series:Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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Online Access:http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/525