When the last Ice Age ended almost 14,000 years ago, the first hunter-gatherers (called the Bromme culture) moved north with the reindeer. For the Bromme people, flint was an important resource for making knives, scrapers, arrows and spears.
We know of only a few settlements from the Bromme culture in Denmark, but here on Langeland there were two. And flint point from the "Bromme people" from the very earliest Stone Age has been found in the fields near Hov.
When the ice melted, Langeland was part of a northern European steppe landscape that stretched all the way to England. The tundra landscape of the time was dominated by small shrubs, mosses and grasses - as we know them from the landscape in Greenland, for example.
New finds and research at Langelands Museum suggest that there may have been more settlements from the Bromme culture where there is now sea.
Think of Hov as a hilltop overlooking the landscape to the east, north and west. The perfect place to spot the reindeer wandering through the landscape.
Walk in the footsteps of Langeland's first inhabitants
From the car park on Gulstav Petersensvej you can walk 2 km in the footsteps of the Bromme culture through Hov Østerstrand and along the north coast of Langeland. In the area was the medieval castle of Hoborg.
More Hidden Stories
Discover more hidden stories from Langeland at www.govisitlangeland.com/past
The project Langelands Hidden Stories is supported by the Danish Outdoor Council and developed by VisitLangeland and Langelands Museum.
