ABSTRACT
This is not so clear along the shores of the Mediterranean or the Atlantic, where it has been necessary to study a complex interplay between the use of domesticates and that of wild resources. In this case the adoption of agriculture was more problematical and had to be negotiated between different groups of people. The problem is still more severe in the prehistory of Sweden and Norway, for here the expansion of Neolithic farming ended. No matter how cereals were first introduced, there were limits to the natural conditions under which they could be grown. There were many places in which hunting, gathering and fishing would provide more reliable sources of food (Prescott 1996; Bergsvik 2001).
