The Early Neolithic (4000-3300 BC) is marked by pottery, polished flint axes, marine resources (fish, seal), terrestrial resources (elk, reindeer), domesticated plants (emmer, barley) and domesticated cattle (pig, sheep, dog)..
The Funnelbeaker culture (FBC, 4300-2700 BC), developed as a merger of other cultures in north-central Europe and during the fourth millennium BC spread into Denmark and then northwards to Uppland on the east coast of Sweden and the Oslofjord in southeast Norway.
The Pitted Ware culture (PWC, 3500-2300 BC) was a hunter-gatherer culture in southern Scandinavia, living along the coasts of central and southern Sweden, Åland Islands (SW of Finland), southern Norway and northeast Denmark.
The Corded Ware culture (CWC, 2900-2350 BC) occupied a vast area of the North European Plain, including Denmark, coastal Norway and southern parts of Sweden and Finland.
The Single Grave culture (SGC, 2800-2200 BC) covered the western European Plain. In Denmark its sites are concentrated in Jutland, where it was accompanied by large-scale forest clearance and an expansion of animal husbandry, particularly cattle. In eastern Denmark it seems to have coexisted with the Pitted Ware and the Funnelbeaker cultures.
| Site | Municipality | Region | Date |
| Gundsømagle dolmen | 90 | Zealand | 3950 |
| Baronens Høj dolmen, Als (I) | 42 | Southern | 3500 |
| Brænde-Stene dolmen | 89 | Zealand | 3500 |
| Grønsalen long barrow, Møn (I) | 96 | Zealand | 3500 |
| Klekkende Høj passage tomb, Møn (I) | 96 | Zealand | 3500 |
| Stenbjerggård passage tomb, Funen (I) | 49 | Southern | 3500 |
| Troldkirken long barrow | 89 | Zealand | 3500 |
| Tustrup passage tomb | 23 | Jutland | 3500 |
| Sarup causewayed enclosure | 44 | Southern | 3400 |
| Sømarkedyssen dolmen, Møn (I) | 96 | Zealand | 3400 |
| Hulbjerg passage tomb, Funen (I) | 52 | Southern | 3300 |
| Kong Asgers Høj passage tomb, Møn (I) | 96 | Zealand | 3300 |
| Poskær Stenhus round barrow | 26 | Central | 3300 |
| Kong Svends Høj gallery tomb | 98 | Zealand | 3200 |
| Rispebjerg palisaded enclosure | 81 | Capital | 2800 |
| Kong Humbles Grave passage tomb | 52 | Southern | 2000 |
Causewayed enclosures are subcircular areas enclosed by one or more concentric ditches usually with banks on their inner sides. The ditches were dug in a series of elongated pits separated by the undug gaps (causeways); banks would be formed by the debris thrown up from the ditches.
On a promontory at Sarup on Funen in southern Denmark there were two major phases of causewayed enclosures. Sarup-I, dating to around 3400 BC consisted of a palisaded enclosure and two external circuits of interrupted ditches enclosing an area of around 8.5 hectares (85,000 m2). Sarup II, dating to around 3200 BC, comprised a palisaded enclosure and two external circuits of interrupted ditches.
Early Neolithic graves are mostly simple pits dug in the ground, but as society progressed the people began to create places to commemorate the dead.
There are several types of megalithic tombs: portal tombs/ dolmens (burial chamber); passage tombs (burial chamber with narrow passage leading to the exterior) and gallery tombs (long chamber divided into compartments), Dolmens and passage tombs are normally under round barrows; gallery tombs are often covered by long barrows.
A ‘second generation’ of Neolithic earthworks is represented by palisaded enclosures. Rispebjerg on Bornholm had no fewer than fourteen palisades although not all of them may have been in use at the same time.
● Late Neolithic (Transitional) Period (2350-1700 BC)
The Bell Beaker culture (BBC, 2800-1800 BC) is defined by a type of pottery found throughout in western and central Europe. During the late Neolithic it spread to southern Scandinavia. In Denmark its presence is primarily documented by sunken-floor houses, such as at Bejsebakken, Aalborg municipality, North Jutland. Here a number of contemporary farmsteads (mostly dated to Late Neolithic (LN I, 2340-1950 BC) existed, and the presence of flint mines and dagger hoards nearby shows it was an important centre for the production and distribution of flint daggers in Scandinavia.
Though a few sporadic finds of copper dating to the Final Mesolithic and Later Early Neolithic period (4500-3700 BC), there are no native copper sources in Denmark.
Late Neolithic II (LN II, 1950-1700 BC) is, together with the widespread production of flint daggers made using the pressure-flaking flint knapping technique, defined by the increasing rate of importation of bronze and gold from the continent to make tools and jewellery by moulding/casting.
In Norddjurs municipality, Central Jutland, investigations have revealed nine longhouses near Hemmed Church and three longhouses near Hemmed Plantation. Of these, one is a two-aisled longhouse (i.e. having a central row of load bearing posts), dating to between the Single Grave culture and Late Neolithic Period, six are two-aisled longhouses dating to between the Late Neolithic Period and the Early Bronze Age, while three are three-aisled longhouses (i.e. two rows of load bearing posts), dating from the Early Bronze Age.
| Gallemose hoard, Randers (22) M, C Jutland, CR | LN II |
| Skeldal hoard, Skanderborg (27) M, C Jutland, CR | LN II |
| Vigerslev hoard, Copenhagen (78) M, CaR (Capital R) | LN II |
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