Barum woman (died 7010–6540 BCE, also known as Bäckaskogskvinna) was a Mesolithic woman whose skeleton was found in 1939 in , Sweden and is now in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. Her skeleton was found in 1939 on the shore of lake at village, near Bäckaskog in the province of Scania, and on the property of Bäckaskog Castle. She was believed to be male, and was called The Fisher from Barum because flint arrows believed to be used for fishing were found in the grave. When it was established in the 1970s that she was female, she was renamed Bäckaskogskvinna (Bäckaskog woman), and in 2016 the museum renamed her as Kvinnan från Barum (The woman from Barum) to reflect local wishes in Scania province, and in line with a 2015 book published with the title Kvinnan från Barum - från äldre