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 ...
“researchers suspect it was discarded by someone who had found it less than useful in the snow and ice.”
That theory seems somewhat optimistic.
If you were deserting the Roman army back in the day, how far would you run?
The Lyngen Alps (Norwegian: Lyngsalpene) are a mountain range in northeastern Troms og Finnmark county in Norway, east of the city of Tromsø. The mountains are of alpine character, popular among extreme skiers.
Mike Lindell will copy it........................
Or maybe the person lost their foot.....................
If he was wearing socks with sandals he was probably a German tourist.
LOLOLOL!
Globullwarming…
Too many factories and SUV’s 1500 years ago?
Btw- co2 is a much smaller component of greenhouse gasses than h2o.
Humans/factories have no impact on atmospheric water vapor. Natural H2O variation overwhelms the small percentage change of co2 causes in total greenhouse levels.
Water drives greenhouse gas changes, not co2.
Btw- I know u were being sarcastic…
Is it a size 11 double wide?
I lost a sandal while hiking a while back running away from some angry villagers. I think they got my buddy Ötzi the Iceman.....
:^)
You’re right about the German tourists wearing socks with sandals-a few come and stay at the guest ranches in the Summer here-I’ve seen them in our little restaurants and tourist traps-they are easy to spot-the footwear, and the fact that they are mostly silent and always reading something-at a restaurant table, waiting for a table, in a bar with a beer in front of them-doesn’t matter how much music/conversation, etc is going on around them, they are totally still and uninvolved-makes you wonder why they came to a tourist area in the 1st place...
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