Posted on 09/11/2022 6:55:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Exchange of knowledge and expertise, bartering and wooing. Kirkhellaren Cave on Sanna in Træna is one of Norway’s oldest meeting places, having first been used about 10,000 years ago.
So far west out at sea that witty people claim that the gulls here speak English, it is midsummer on the Arctic Circle and we are on the island of Sanna in Træna Municipality.
A 10 to 15-minute walk from the quay we find Kirkhellaren, a very famous cave where, throughout repeated ice ages, the frost and sea have carved out a cathedral in a crack of the mountainside...
The first archaeological excavations in Kirkhellaren took place in the 1930s, led by Guttorm Gjessing. His finds included wonderfully well-preserved artefact material. The artefacts included wooden and bone tools, meal scraps from bird, fish and mammal species, and as many as 33 skeletons of men, women and children. The finds date from the Stone Age, the Iron Age and the Middle Ages...
When the summer fieldwork was over, the excavation area was filled in again, and the cave bottom will gradually return to its previous state. All the samples collected in the course of the work will be the subject of research and subsequent publications.
(Excerpt) Read more at partner.sciencenorway.no ...
Rising or falling? Yes and no, no and yes. :^)
Historic Ice Age cavern used as barbecue and party spot during lockdown
https://www.itv.com/ | 2 March 2021 | BPM Media
Posted on 3/20/2021, 8:13:30 PM by Beowulf9
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