Abstract
During the last three years the number of coastal Pitted Ware sites in southern Norrland has increased immensely. The northern border of this cultural expression has been pushed to the northernmost part of Hälsingland, that is as far as our new surveys have reached. In 1993 the site of Fräkenrönningen was excavated. Due to the fact that the cultural layer on this site was excavated in it s totality - not just sampled — an analysis concerning the relation between artefacts and constructions on the site have been possible. These new sourcematerials has enabled us to pose questions about settlement structure and settlement patterns that would have been impossible to pursue without these large and consistent materials.
Highlights
The Pitted Ware culture in southern Norrland represents the northernmost sites of this cultural expression
The time at which the sites were suitable for coastal dwelling is shorter in this area
I have presented the subneolithic culture of southern Norrland at three different analytical levels
Summary
During the last three years the number of coastal Pitted Ware sites in southern Norrland has increased immensely. SURVEYING When I started to study the Pitted Ware culture in southern Norrland, I realized that the empiric situation had to be improved in order to enable an analysis of settlement patterns and intra-site structures. This can be illustrated by the settlement of "Stordalen", which has been measured to be about 40.9 meters above present sea-level A fall of only 0.9 meters of the sea-level at this site caused the shoreline to regress nearly half a kilometer This would make attempts at coastal settlement quite impossible at this location after a relatively short period of time.
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