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Fig. 15.6 Shore-displacement curve from the Ski district, Norway (after Gustafson 1999 , fig. 3,
modified by the author; graphics by R. Kiepe, NIhK)
Based on the sea-level curve, Gustafson ( 1999 ) has shown that with a sea level
160 m higher than today Stunner island can be placed chronologically at 8,900 cal.
BC. This dating fits well with the typological classification of the artefacts. The
blade technique used, in particular, indicates a close cultural connection between
the people of Stunner and the late Ahrensburgian group (Fuglestvedt 1999 ).
Whether the people from Stunner and the other Fosna-Hensbacka group sites
indeed travelled over the Yoldia Sea to personally visit the camps of the late
Ahrensburgian communities on the present territory of Denmark and Germany,
or whether they have to be regarded as their successors - well adapted to the
new maritime landscape - is still a point of scientific discussion (Eriksen 2002 ,
Fuglestvedt 2008 ), but there can be no doubt that they experienced more impressive
shore displacements and changes in the landscape and their environment than most
other communities in the history of the world.