Thanks nickcarraway.
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.
I see a snake in the upper left corner, looks like a real snake, but I don’t see an elk.
Thanks nickcarraway.
Can you locate it for me in relation to the jet plane in the upper left corner?
LOL
bs..... scholarly imagination on steroids
I saw daffy duck in a McMuffin once and an oak tree. sorry but that is not a carving.
;’) That’s a carving of MH370 — a prophecy by some now-anonymous shaman.
You’re myopic, but that’s okay.
If I wasn’t in love with a certain woman, I might have gotten mad, but, smeh, not today.....
At least we can agree on Trump
“If I wasn’t in love with a certain woman, I might have gotten mad, but, smeh, not today.”
Love conquers all, lol. All you really have to see well is her lovely visage.
I only see two turtles ...... on their backs ..... under a Volkswagen....
“I don’t think elk as Americans know them ever existed in Norway. What they call elk, we call moose.”
And elsewhere they’re called Shriners.
I watched that vid. Thanks for posting the link.
Now, what I saw was a gathering of humans and moose. I didn’t see any weapons, so I’m assuming it was a social gathering between the two species.
In one part of the pic, there’s a human approaching a moose from behind. I’m assuming alcohol was involved.
This could be a pictocarving explaining the creation of the Finnish people.
Thats the pattern the wife wants to do the kitchen floor in.
Do you realize what this is going to cost me?
The two meter high "Balikligöl Statue" is the oldest statue [13,500 years old] discovered until now. [Goblekli Tepe, Turkey
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