Archaeological finds provide new picture of Bronze Age life in northern Sweden

The remains of pole houses, domesticated animals and grains show that there were farming communities in northern Scandinavia during the Bronze Age. Previously, it had been assumed that people in these areas lived as nomads. Before the Umeå finds, no remains of pole houses had been found north of Uppland.

"It's very unusual that we found these," said Tone Hellsten, an archaeologist at Västerbotten Museum, in a press release.

The findings, which were recently presented and reported on by several media outlets, result from excavations carried out prior to the Swedish Transport Administration's construction of the Western Link in Umeå.