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When did the first hunters arrive in the area that is now Denmark?
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The first nomadic hunters arrived in the area that is now Denmark by approximately 12,000 BCE. This migration occurred as the climate warmed and the great glaciers of the Pleistocene Epoch began to recede, allowing these groups to move into the region with tools and weapons characteristic of the Paleolithic Period.1