A hiker in the mountains discovered the leather sandal in the ice.Credit: Espen Finstad/Secrets of the Ice
Posted on 05/01/2022 12:32:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers working on the project have been canvassing the high mountain areas in Norway that are believed to be part of ancient passes—where people walked back and forth between valleys in the mountains and coastal areas—for the past 15 years. During that time, they have found a large number of artifacts, from horse bones to dung and horseshoes...
A mountain guide found the shoe in 2019 in a part of a pass known as Horse Ice Patch... a lot of snow and ice in the area had melted, revealing the shoe and several other items. The guide contacted the researchers, who raced to the scene ahead of an impending snow storm. There they found the shoe and also some textiles, arrow shafts and leaf fodder. After collecting as many items as they could, they retreated to shelter. They returned the next day to find the area covered with new snow, likely hiding other finds.
In studying the shoe, the researchers found it to be approximately 1,500 years old—and it had been found at an elevation of approximately 2,000 meters above sea level and far from the coast... it very much looked like sandals worn by people in much warmer parts of the Roman Empire. The researchers suspect it was discarded by someone who had found it less than useful in the snow and ice. Still, the researchers insist finding it adds another piece to the puzzle of the mountain passes in the region and the people who used them. They also suggest that the sandal may have only been a part of the footwear, noting that the person who wore it likely covered their foot with some sort of fabric before adding the sandal.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
A hiker in the mountains discovered the leather sandal in the ice.Credit: Espen Finstad/Secrets of the Ice
THANK GOD YOU FOUND IT! My wife will be so happy.
“Globull warming” isn’t all bad. Look at all the stuff that’s being found, perfectly preserved under the ice of glaciers and thousands of years of snow and ice.
Wonderful stuff!
Thanks!
‘Face
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So how much Grant Money will this find produce??? And did it belong to a male who had brown hair, blue eyes and was bi??
Looks pretty comfortable with the foam insole.
“likely covered their foot with some sort of fabric before adding the sandal.”
That is interesting-sounds like they put a sock made of fabric on their foot before they put on their sandal-duh-apparently 1500 years ago people already put on socks in cold weather-and maybe that person left their closed shoes/boots at home, or didn’t have a pair...
/desperately hoping for the return of Dire Wolves
I think I see... why, yes... there’s a swoosh on the side.
Humans have been walking around on the Earth for THOUSANDS of years!
And: NEW DISCOVERY FOUND TO PRESERVE THINGS!
- Scientists dub this new miracle phenomenon - 'ICE'.
Film at 11:00.
/s
Roman technology found in Norway 1000 years after the fall of Rome.
It’s like someone finding an iPhone 1500 years from now in Alaska.
If my dog found it he would have eaten it on the spot. Come to think of it, no doubt he would have eaten Oetzi too.
Norwegian Alpine pass. That will be news to the French, Swiss, Germans, and Italians. Probably to the Norwegians as well.
-PJ
I would think that Caesar’s patent would have expired long before that. So the vikings shouldn’t have to worry about any patent infringements.
1,500-year-old shoe resembling Roman sandal found in Norwegian alpine pass...
“Along with a suicide note...”
Gotta say “That is a pretty good foam lining and would, indeed, make for comfortable sandals”
I suppose the dung is worth its weight in .... dung.
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