The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Sweoðeod, which meant "people of the Swedes". This word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means "Realm of the Swedes", excluding the Geats in Götaland. Sweden's prehistory begins in the Allerød warm period c. 12,000 BC with Late Palaeolithic reindeer-hunting camps of the Bromme culture at the edge of the ice in what is now the country's southernmost province. This period was characterized by small bands of hunter-gatherer-fishers using flint technology.
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