Tanum's Bronze Age rock carvings

Tanum

West of Västra Götaland lies the province of Bohuslän, which is home to the UNESCO cultural heritage site of Bronze Age Tanum. Tanum is famous for Bronze Age rock carvings which are a treasure of information about the Bronze Age cultures that lived among the shores of what is now Southwest Sweden. The province Bohuslän historically overlaps the west of Västra Götaland and Bronze Age sites are spread throughout the whole area. 

The rock carvings spread through Scandinavia show a wide variety of images ranging from ships, warfare, farming, animals and ritual. Originally these carvings would have marked the shoreline of Bronze Age Scandinavia. Nowadays they appear to be more inland, this is because the coastline of the Bronze Age was much higher than it is today. The climate of the Bronze Age was comparable to that of today, with temperatures of the time just averaging a little higher. 

But the carvings are not the only thing surviving from the Bronze Age. Spread throughout the area we also find stone cairns and dolmen (burial mounds) that are still visible and accessible today.