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Tanumshede is a town in Bohuslän
Bohuslän

is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden , situated on the west coast of the country. It borders Dalsland and V?sterg?tland as well as the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea and ?stfold in Norway....
, Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County

V?stra G?taland County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 Municipalities of Sweden ....
 in western 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....
 with a population of 1,600. It is the seat of Tanum Municipality
Tanum Municipality

Tanum Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in V?stra G?taland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Tanumshede, with 1,600 inhabitants....
. The area around Tanumshede has been declared a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
 by UNESCO because of the high concentration of petroglyph
Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are s created by removing part of a Rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images....
s.

The largest flat rock of Nordic Bronze Age
Nordic Bronze Age

The Nordic Bronze Age is the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age archaeological culture in Scandinavian pre-history, ca 1800 BCE - 500 BCE, with sites that reached as far east as Estonia....
 petroglyphs in Scandinavia, the Vitlyckehäll, is located in Tanumshede.






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Tanumshede is a town in Bohuslän
Bohuslän

is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden , situated on the west coast of the country. It borders Dalsland and V?sterg?tland as well as the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea and ?stfold in Norway....
, Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County

V?stra G?taland County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 Municipalities of Sweden ....
 in western 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....
 with a population of 1,600. It is the seat of Tanum Municipality
Tanum Municipality

Tanum Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in V?stra G?taland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Tanumshede, with 1,600 inhabitants....
. The area around Tanumshede has been declared a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
 by UNESCO because of the high concentration of petroglyph
Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are s created by removing part of a Rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images....
s.

Tanumshede 2005 Rock Carvings 3
The largest flat rock of Nordic Bronze Age
Nordic Bronze Age

The Nordic Bronze Age is the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age archaeological culture in Scandinavian pre-history, ca 1800 BCE - 500 BCE, with sites that reached as far east as Estonia....
 petroglyphs in Scandinavia, the Vitlyckehäll, is located in Tanumshede. It was discovered in 1972 by Age Nilsen, who was originally intending to place an explosive charge for construction work.

In total there are about 3000 Tanum petroglyphs, occurring in about 100 panels. These are concentrated in five distinct areas along a 25 km stretch, which was the coastline of a fjord during the Bronze Age, and covers an area of about 51 hectares (126 acres or 0.5 km²).

Scandinavian Bronze Age
Nordic Bronze Age

The Nordic Bronze Age is the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age archaeological culture in Scandinavian pre-history, ca 1800 BCE - 500 BCE, with sites that reached as far east as Estonia....
 and Iron Age
Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
 people were sophisticated woodworkers and very competent travelers by water. (Dates for ages vary with the region; in Scandinavia, the Bronze Age is roughly 1800 to 600 BCE) Some of the glyphs depict long boats of the Hjortspring boat
Hjortspring boat

The Hjortspring boat is a ship, or rather designed as a large canoe, from the Scandinavia Pre-Roman Iron Age that was excavated in 1921?1922 in Hjortspring Mose at Als in S?nderjylland....
 type carrying around a dozen passengers. Wagons or carts are also depicted.

One glyph depicts a hunter with a bow, and others depict hunting scenes. Some of the stone pictures show people performing agrarian tasks. There is a human at a plough drawn by two oxen, holding what might be a branch or an ox-goading crop made of a number of strips of hide.

The rock carvings are endangered by erosion due to pollution. To the dismay of some archaeologists, they have been painted red to make them more visible for tourists.

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External links

  • , a society working to document the carvings and running the Tanum Museum of Rock Carvings