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| PREHISTORIC TIMES | ||
| FROM ARCHIPELAGO TO FARMLAND | ||
| CHAPTER 1 FROM HUNTING COMMUNITY TO FARMING COMMUNITY | 7 | |
| (STONE AGE AND BRONZE AGE) | ||
| Ice age and tundra hunters | 7 | |
| The background to settlement in southeastern Norway 7 The time limit for settlement in the Follo area after the last ice age 9 | ||
| Tools, settlements and hunting life (Early Stone Age) | 10 | |
| The Stunner people, around 7500 BC. 10 The external living environment in the Early Stone Age 20 Hunters and trappers in the High Heat period 22 The final phase of the Hunter Stone Age 24 Way of life 29 | ||
| Agricultural communities emerge (Neolithic and Bronze Age) | 32 | |
| Agriculture becomes known and spreads 32 The oldest agricultural phase 34 Vegetation changes and settlement 36 The landscape and forms of agricultural use 38 | ||
| The younger agricultural stone age | 40 | |
| The period of strife 40 The breakthrough of agricultural culture 44 | ||
| Towards a more organized society | 52 | |
| The first discoveries of metal. New source types 52 Burial cairns and social power 54 Cairns and roadways 58 Farmers' carvings on stones and in rock 60 Permanent settlement 62 | ||
| CHAPTER 2 FARMS AND SETTLEMENTS EMERGE | 65 | |
| (EARLY IRON AGE) | ||
| Climate and cultural conditions 65 | ||
| The sources of settlement history | 70 | |
| Finds from the Early Iron Age 70 Grave memorials and farm settlements 75 Farm names 79 Size of farms and other age characteristics 83 | ||
| The permanent settlement and emergence of the farm | 87 | |
| The form of settlement in the Early Iron Age and the prerequisites for it 87 The form of settlement is changing. The testimony of the burial sites 88 | ||
| The oldest Iron Age settlement | 90 | |
| Farm settlement in Ski spreads 90 Kråkstad is divided between central farms 97 | ||
| The settlement situation and settlement phases towards the end of the Early Stone Age | 111 | |
| Different number of farms, but evenly sized settlements around 600 116 | ||
| People, race and village associations | 118 | |
| The homestead and the community 118 Communal worship and the public gathering places 120 The village assemblies. Cooperation on law and judgment 129 The village castles - Places of refuge and part of the village associations' protection of the village territories 133 | ||
| CHAPTER 3 LARGER SETTLEMENTS AND NEW FORMS OF SOCIETY | 141 | |
| (YOUNGER IRON AGE) | ||
| Culture change 141 | ||
| The settlement expands and the oldest farms are divided (Merovingian period) | 143 | |
| Migration from ancestral farms 143 Skibygda becomes larger 144 The central farms in Kråkstad are divided 150 Settlement and social conditions at the end of the Merovingian period 155 | ||
| Petty kings break into rural communities | 159 | |
| Inner growth and expansion. Age of empire building (Viking Age) | 165 | |
| Eating society dissolves 165 | ||
| The Viking Age settlement | 168 | |
| Subdivision of farms in southern Ski 168 Settler activity north and east of Ski 172 New farms on the outskirts of the older ones in Kråkstad 178 Settlement and rural communities at the beginning of the Middle Ages 193 | ||
| Finding objects tells us about people | 197 | |
| The villages slide into a Norwegian kingdom | 200 | |
| National Assembly 200 Leidangen and the ship-owning system 201 The law and court system 203 The kings and Christianization 206 | ||
| REFERENCES | 209 | |
| NAME REGISTER | 215 | |
| LITERATURE AND SOURCES, see volume 2 | ||
