Posted on 08/31/2015 11:29:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A set of 7,000-year old rock carvings have been found deep inside the Arctic Circle in a sensational discovery that is being compared to the Unesco-protected Alta petroglyphs found 40 years ago.
Erik Kjellman found the carvings of elk and reindeer last Monday as he was doing field work at Tømmerneset, just outside Kirkenes on Norway’s Northeastern border with Russia.
“I am 29 years old and can not really retire now. I will never be involved in anything like this again. It is unique in an archaeological context,” he told Norway’s NRK channel.
He said that he had stumbled on the carvings while travelling between two separate digs run by Tromsø University.
“It was quite by chance that I went past the place at a time when the light made it possible to to glimpse a petroglyph,” he told the channel.
The rock carvings in Alta, a six hour drive west of where the latest carvings were found, were discovered in 1973 by Professor Knut Helskog from the University of Tromsø.
They was placed on the Unesco list of World Heritage Sites in 1985, becoming Norway’s only prehistoric World Heritage Site.
Tømmerneset was being surveyed by the archeologist as part of preparations for a major oil and gas development in the area, but Kjellman said he saw little reason why protecting his find would cause delay or block the scheme.
Here is a picture of Kjellman (right) next to his find.
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that looks like crap... untalented neanderthals
This is one of those 3D pics right? I am un-focusing and cannot see a thing...
This petroglyph is demonstrably done by a thinking person (even without any proof) and thrills the scientists. But a real elk “accidentally” arises? This picture is just a few scratches on a stone and they marvel, but the elk it is supposed to represent has real, complex DNA moving parts, organs, blood, bone, growth, repair, instincts, food processing, and a host of other real live attributes and we are supposed to believe from the evolutionists that it all came by accident? Please.
Here is my carving of a polar bear in a blizzard.
If Prehistoric Elk could carve, how come present day Elk don’t?
I don’t think elk as Americans know them ever existed in Norway. What they call elk, we call moose. I am thinking that is just a geological anomaly, kinda like finding an image of Jesus in a flour tortilla....just saying.
I don’t see anything but a crude outline that could be a reindeer or some old guy’s mother in law taking a nap.
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That could be anything
I blame it on television.
Damn modern art....
both of them (left)....nice cans ;)
Geez, put your specs on people. The elk outline is obvious. Get an eye checkup. I love finds like this.
I see the Virgin Mary!
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