Originally the landscape was covered by large leaf forests. About 6000 years ago, development began towards today's cultural landscape when Stone Age cultures began to clear forests for primitive agriculture and cattleraising.
The southernmost plain "Söderslätt" is very fertile and offers good conditions for cultivation of grain and other crops. That Söderslätt has been a central farming area for a long time has been shown, among other things, by the great ancient monuments that the burial mounds form. These manifest themselves in the landscape and convey an experience of the long history of the plain as a field of cultivation.
Just east of Vellinge town center is a grave, a stone formation from the younger Stone Age. Just west of it, closer to the eastern extension of the city lies a burial mound from the Bronze Age. This whole area is rich in ancient monuments, a number of bronze-tall mounds lie in a larger area stretching between Backa farm in the south and Hököpinge in the north.
During the younger Iron Age, the first major city formations arise. Many village names in the municipality ending with -inge (Vellinge) -löv (Håslöv), -stad (Ingelstad) or -ie (Gessie, Grevie) as settlement names originate according to research from the younger Iron Age and the migration period
