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The Bromme culture is a late Upper Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 9th millennium BC years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of "high" culture and before the advent of agriculture....
 culture dated to the Allerød Oscillation
Allerød Oscillation

The Aller?d period was a warm and moist global interstadial that occurred at the end of the last glacial period. The Aller?d oscillation raised temperatures , before they declined again in the succeeding Younger Dryas period, which was followed by the present interglacial period....
, ca 9700 BC-9000 BC (uncalibrated), a warmer spell between the Elder Dryas and the Younger Dryas
Younger Dryas

The Younger Dryas stadial, named after the alpine/tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala, and also referred to as the Big Freeze, was a brief cold climate period following the B?lling/Aller?d Oscillation interstadial at the end of the Pleistocene between approximately 12,800 to 11,500 years Before Present, and preceding the Boreal of t...
, the last cold periods of the late Weichsel Glaciation
Wisconsin glaciation

The last glacial period was the most recent glacial period within the Quaternary glaciation, occurring in the Pleistocene epoch. It began about 110,000 years ago and ended between 10,000 and 15,000 Before Present....
.

At this time, the reindeer
Reindeer

The reindeer , also known as the caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer, widespread and numerous across the northern Holarctic....
 was the most important prey, but the Bromme people also hunted moose
Moose

File:Alces alces NA.svgThe moose or elk , , is the largest Extant taxon species in the deer family . Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a "twig-like" configuration....
, wolverine
Wolverine

The wolverine is the largest land-dwelling species of the Mustelidae or weasel family in the genus Gulo . It is also called the Glutton or Carcajou....
 and beaver
Beaver

Beavers are two primarily nocturnal, semi-aquatic species of rodent, one native to North America and one to Eurasia. They are known for building dams, canals, and lodges ....
. The landscape was consequently a combination of taiga
Taiga

Taiga is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Covering most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway and Russia , as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States , northern Kazakhstan and Japan , the taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome....
 and tundra
Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is an biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tund?r, which means "uplands, treeless mountain tract." There are two types of tundra: Arctic tundra and alpine tundra....
.

The culture is named after a settlement at Bromme
Bromme

Bromme was a racing car constructor who competed in the Formula_One#Distinction_between_Formula_One_and_World_Championship_races from 1951 to 1954....
 on western Zealand
Zealand

Zealand is the largest island of Denmark and the List of islands by area. Zealand is connected to Funen by the Great Belt Bridge and to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge....
, and it is known from several settlements in Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 and Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern Germany of the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. Its capital city is Kiel, other notable cities are L?beck and Flensburg....
.






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The Bromme culture is a late Upper Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 9th millennium BC years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of "high" culture and before the advent of agriculture....
 culture dated to the Allerød Oscillation
Allerød Oscillation

The Aller?d period was a warm and moist global interstadial that occurred at the end of the last glacial period. The Aller?d oscillation raised temperatures , before they declined again in the succeeding Younger Dryas period, which was followed by the present interglacial period....
, ca 9700 BC-9000 BC (uncalibrated), a warmer spell between the Elder Dryas and the Younger Dryas
Younger Dryas

The Younger Dryas stadial, named after the alpine/tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala, and also referred to as the Big Freeze, was a brief cold climate period following the B?lling/Aller?d Oscillation interstadial at the end of the Pleistocene between approximately 12,800 to 11,500 years Before Present, and preceding the Boreal of t...
, the last cold periods of the late Weichsel Glaciation
Wisconsin glaciation

The last glacial period was the most recent glacial period within the Quaternary glaciation, occurring in the Pleistocene epoch. It began about 110,000 years ago and ended between 10,000 and 15,000 Before Present....
.

At this time, the reindeer
Reindeer

The reindeer , also known as the caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer, widespread and numerous across the northern Holarctic....
 was the most important prey, but the Bromme people also hunted moose
Moose

File:Alces alces NA.svgThe moose or elk , , is the largest Extant taxon species in the deer family . Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a "twig-like" configuration....
, wolverine
Wolverine

The wolverine is the largest land-dwelling species of the Mustelidae or weasel family in the genus Gulo . It is also called the Glutton or Carcajou....
 and beaver
Beaver

Beavers are two primarily nocturnal, semi-aquatic species of rodent, one native to North America and one to Eurasia. They are known for building dams, canals, and lodges ....
. The landscape was consequently a combination of taiga
Taiga

Taiga is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Covering most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway and Russia , as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States , northern Kazakhstan and Japan , the taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome....
 and tundra
Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is an biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tund?r, which means "uplands, treeless mountain tract." There are two types of tundra: Arctic tundra and alpine tundra....
.

The culture is named after a settlement at Bromme
Bromme

Bromme was a racing car constructor who competed in the Formula_One#Distinction_between_Formula_One_and_World_Championship_races from 1951 to 1954....
 on western Zealand
Zealand

Zealand is the largest island of Denmark and the List of islands by area. Zealand is connected to Funen by the Great Belt Bridge and to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge....
, and it is known from several settlements in Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 and Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern Germany of the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. Its capital city is Kiel, other notable cities are L?beck and Flensburg....
. In Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, it is known from the country's earliest known settlement at Segebro, near Malmö
Malmö

is the third most populous urban areas in Sweden in Sweden, situated in its southernmost province of Scania.Malm? is the seat of Malm? Municipality and the capital of Sk?ne County....
.

It is charactherized by sturdy lithic flake
Lithic flake

In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure," and may also be referred to as a chip or spall, or collectively as debitage....
s that were used for all tools, primarily awl
Awl

Awl is a long pointed spike. It may be a:*Scratch awl, a tool with a long pointed spike used for marking wood.*Stitching awl, a tool used by leatherworkers, such as cobblers , to pierce holes in leather...
s (sticklar), scrapers and skaftunge arrow heads. No stone axes have been found.

The Bromme culture and the Ahrensburg culture
Ahrensburg culture

The Ahrensburg culture was a late Upper Paleolithic archaeological culture during the Younger Dryas, the last spell of cold at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation....
 are so similar that they it has been proposed that the two cultures should be combined as one and the same under the label Lyngby culture
Lyngby culture

The Lyngby culture is a proposed name for the combination of the highly similar Ahrensburg culture and Bromme cultures as one and the same....
, with the Bromme culture being recognized as an older northern branch of the same culture as the Ahrensburg culture.