inglise keeles Eesti tutvustus: Project: Estonia
Many tourism
maps have been put beside the road as well as many hiking trails have been built and
marked.
History of Estonia
Human settlement in Estonia became possible 11,00013,000 years ago, when the ice
from the last glacial era melted away. The oldest known settlement in Estonia is the Pulli
settlement, which was located on the banks of the river Pärnu, near the town of Sindi, in
southern Estonia. According to radiocarbon dating, it was settled around 11,000 years
ago, at the beginning of the 9th millennium BC. Evidence has been found of hunting and
fishing communities existing around 6500 BC near the town of Kunda in northern
Estonia. Bone and stone artifacts similar to those found at Kunda have been discovered
elsewhere in Estonia, as well as in Latvia, northern Lithuania and in southern Finland.
The Kunda culture belongs to the middle stone age, or mesolithic period. The end of the