The people settled in the beginning mostly in the western part of Norway, along the fjords and secluded coves. From their coastal settlements, they had easy access to the water where they could fish and hunt small whales. The coast is also home to a huge amount of birds. The narrow fjords also meant short way to the mountains and forests where they hunted many different animals.
Tools were mostly made of flint found on the coastlines, but for those who moved inland, slate was more commonly used. There is also found tools made of quartz.
Inland, there is evidence of huge areas with pits linked together by high fences. They drove the game along the fences till they fell into the pits. This hunting-tecnique was so successful that it has been used until just a few centuries ago.
This lifestyle continued more or less unchanged until the introduction of farming in approx. year 0 AD, nearly five thousand years later than the first evidence of farming in Europe.