The Holocene of Sweden – a review

This paper presents a review on more than hundred years of palaeoenvironmental research in Sweden; from early descriptions peat and tufa deposits the late nineteenth twentieth centuries to multiproxy transfer function studies twenty-first CE. Research Holocene climate variability has long history Sweden many ideas concepts about changes temperature precipitation during originated Fennoscandia. The evolution follows pattern common for northern latitude records with rapid warming starting at Pleistocene–Holocene boundary c. 11 650 cal BP, followed by middle thermal maximum between 8000 5000 BP. A change colder wetter conditions starts 4000 BP lasts until 1800 s There is evidence climatic anomalies such as 8.2 4.2 ka events Little Ice Age (LIA) but only inconclusive other events, 10.3 event. main environmental well known most parts Sweden, present also shows that several questions remain be addressed.