Posted on 01/17/2015 4:36:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Mittens, shoes, weapons, walking sticks -- lost in the high mountains of Norway thousands of years ago -- are now emerging from melting ice.
Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate. Now glaciers and patches of perennial ice in the high mountains of Southern Norway have started to melt again, revealing ancient layers...
The summer of 2014 was hectic in this respect. In Oppland County alone, Pilø and his colleagues found 400 objects, now emerged from the deepfreeze.
Among these were a horse skull and hiking staffs from the Viking Age. An arrow shaft found by the archaeologists is from the Stone Age.
An ancient route over the mountains once passed by the glacier where Lars Pilø and his colleagues conducted field work. People crossed the mountains with livestock, and went back and forth to their high summer farms -- or simply travelled from one place to another. They have left a wide array of artefacts in their wake over the centuries, to the delight of 21st century archaeologists...
Such objects reveal copious information about the people who lived in Norway as far back as the Stone Age. The material is emerging quickly so archaeologists have to work fast to gather them and preserve them as well as nature has done for so long.
Such artefacts from ancient mountain people are also being found in the Rocky Mountains, the Andes and the Alps.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenordic.com ...
Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate.
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Probably from all of the coal-burning factories and all of the internal combustion engines running around.
Seriously, though, this must be very exciting for these archaeologists.
So you are one of those evil, despicable deniers, huh?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
But I am warm and enjoying every minute of it.
Now I know where all those mittens my kids lost when they were growing up went.
I always consider the possibility of these archeologists planting stuff. They live off grant money.
Fordi det var så varmt i sommer, var ikke forholdene optimale for å grave ut alle beinrestene de fant. Derfor grov de ut hele funnet i store jordblokker, som de skal begynne å pirke i om få uker.
“Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate.”
It must have been all of those SUVs back then. You know, global warming.
bttt
If you have knife block in your kitchen, then you have a knife of very similar size and shape. For what purpose do you use it?
Use the right tool for the job.
“Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate.”
That’s impossible; it has to be a lie, an invention. Humans were not using fossil fuels and driving gas guzzling SUVs all over the planet 7,000 years ago!!! Someone has planted the “stone age” articles near the melting ice just to make it look like a much warmer earth was possible, in early human times, naturally, without CO2 spewing fuels!!! /sarc
You used a small knife to carve small items same as today.
We had it and we enjoyed it!
Your spouse kept sending word to the pub, you just wouldn’t budge from that stool, that poor horse just waiting out at the hitching post...
That looks a lot like a handcrafted knife that I watched being made on a PBS program called Craftsman’s Legacy this morning. The craftsman was named Tim Zawada and he started with ore sands recovered from the shores of Lake Superior. He smelted the sand until it turned into a chunk of steel and then pounded and tempered and shaped it until he had a blade to which he mounted a wooden handle. Fascinating.
That imported Viking ale is to blame. By the time it was shipped in it was at full potency. Otzi had some and look what happened to him.
Glaciers flow, just like a river. They are rivers of ice, and their great weight makes them move. Articles lost in the ice higher up gradually move downhill. Eventually, they are exposed at the bottom edge of the glacier. This may take decades, centuries, or millennia, depending on the size of the glacier.
They found it too late for her, but her heirs should ask for it to be returned.
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