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When did the first nomadic 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 about 12,000 BCE. As the climate warmed and the glaciers of the Pleistocene Epoch receded, these early inhabitants moved into the region, bringing with them tools and weapons characteristic of the Paleolithic Period.12