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- Komsa_culture abstract "The Komsa culture (Komsakulturen) was a Mesolithic culture of hunter-gatherers that existed from around 10000 BC in Northern Norway. The culture is named after the Komsa Mountain in the community of Alta, Finnmark, where the remains of the culture were first discovered. The term was first used by Norwegian archaeologist Anders Nummedal (1867-1944) after the discoveries he made in the Komsa Mountains during 1925. The distinction between a "Komsa" type of stone-tool culture north of the Arctic Circle and a "Fosna" type from Trøndelag to Oslo Fjord was rendered obsolete in the 1970s. Nowadays both phenomena are ascribed to different types of tools of the same culture.Recent archeological finds from Finnish Lapland were originally thought to represent an inland aspect of the Komsa culture equally old to the earliest finds from the Norwegian coast. However, this material is now considered to be affiliated with the contemporary Post-Swiderian culture of North Central Russia and the eastern Baltic and thus represents a separate early incursion into northernmost ScandinaviaThe commonly held view today is that the earliest settlement of the North Norwegian coast originated on the western and southwestern coast of Norway and ultimately in the final Palaeolithic Ahrensburg culture of northwestern Europe. The Komsa are thought to have followed the Norwegian coastline when receding glaciation at the end of the last ice age (between 11,000 and 8000 BC) opened up new areas for settlement. Some elements may have moved into modern-day Finnmark from the northeast, possibly coming from ice-free coasts of the Kola Peninsula, though evidence to this formerly widely held view is still poor.Archaeological evidence indicates that the Komsa culture was almost exclusively sea-oriented, living mainly off seal hunting and being able boatbuilders and fishermen. In comparison to the southern Norway's contemporary Fosna variety of this same culture, stone tools and other implements appear relatively crude. This has been explained with a paucity of flintstone in the region.".
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- Komsa_culture hasPhotoCollection Komsa_culture.
- Komsa_culture subject Category:Archaeological_cultures_of_Northern_Europe.
- Komsa_culture subject Category:Archaeology_of_Norway.
- Komsa_culture subject Category:Hunter-gatherers_of_Europe.
- Komsa_culture subject Category:Mesolithic_Europe.
- Komsa_culture subject Category:Nordic_Stone_Age.
- Komsa_culture subject Category:Prehistory_of_the_Arctic.
- Komsa_culture subject Category:Stone_Age_Europe.
- Komsa_culture type Abstraction100002137.
- Komsa_culture type ArchaeologicalCultures.
- Komsa_culture type Culture108287844.
- Komsa_culture type Group100031264.
- Komsa_culture type SocialGroup107950920.
- Komsa_culture type Society107966140.
- Komsa_culture comment "The Komsa culture (Komsakulturen) was a Mesolithic culture of hunter-gatherers that existed from around 10000 BC in Northern Norway. The culture is named after the Komsa Mountain in the community of Alta, Finnmark, where the remains of the culture were first discovered. The term was first used by Norwegian archaeologist Anders Nummedal (1867-1944) after the discoveries he made in the Komsa Mountains during 1925.".
- Komsa_culture label "Culture Komsa".
- Komsa_culture label "Komsa culture".
- Komsa_culture label "Komsa-Kultur".
- Komsa_culture label "Komsacultuur".
- Komsa_culture label "Kultura Komsa".
- Komsa_culture label "Культура Комса".
- Komsa_culture sameAs Komsa-Kultur.
- Komsa_culture sameAs Culture_Komsa.
- Komsa_culture sameAs Komsacultuur.
- Komsa_culture sameAs Kultura_Komsa.
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- Komsa_culture sameAs Q1577518.
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- Komsa_culture wasDerivedFrom Komsa_culture?oldid=583646596.
- Komsa_culture isPrimaryTopicOf Komsa_culture.