Ebook: The Border of Farming - Shetland and Scandinavia: Neolithic and Bronze Age Farming. Papers from the Symposium in Copenhagen, September 19th to the 21st 2012

The National Museum of Denmark initiated its most comprehensive interdisciplinary research venture so far: 'Northern Worlds'. Between 2009 and 2013, the programme produced and communicated new knowledge on the relationship between people and environment over the last 15,000 years in ways relevant to the present, with its notable climatic changes.

The expansion of agriculture into the temperate and sub-arctic zones of the planet represents a more than 6,000 year long narrative, characterized by repeated advances followed by stagnation. Farming on the edge focused on periods and areas with large potential for the creation of new knowledge on agricultural advances and their associated social structures and ideologies. The ultimate boundaries of farming communities in different parts of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic were explored. The project 'Shetland – the Border of Farming 4000-3000 BC' and 'Farming on the Edge – the Scandinavian Expansion' were parts of this initiative.