ABSTRACT
As shown above, the early agrarian communities in Denmark ensured their survival via a broad-spectred subsistence form which, in the beginning at least, can be termed semi-agrarian. The procural of food was for a good part based on a true agricultural economy, but beside this, other subsistence forms such as hunting, fishing and gathering were also practised. The presence of the agricultural economy in this broad spectrum-and its potential for economic and demographic growth, its greater complexity regarding labour processes and the increased demands for co-operationcreated the basis for an economic and social development of prehistoric society which distinguished it from earlier stages of development.
