Image Credit : Glacier Archaeology Program
Posted on 08/21/2022 9:04:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists From The Glacier Archaeology Program Have Found An Arrow In The Melting Ice During A Research Project In The Norwegian Mountains.
The project is focusing on a melted ice patch in the Jotunheimen mountain range, where the team has found a preserved arrow with an intact iron arrowhead, shortly after arriving at their base camp 1750 metres above sea level.
The arrow dates from around 1,500 years ago during the Norwegian Iron Age, discovered in a collection of broken rock fragments between larger stones on the lower edge of the icefield.
The team believes that the arrow was lost and deposited downslope by meltwater, and has since been exposed several times over the centuries with the melting ice.
This is indicated by the lack of fletching, the fin-shaped aerodynamic stabilisation normally made from feathers or bark. Evidence of sinew and tar has also been identified, but this survives in a poor state of preservation.
The arrow is tapered towards the end and the nock has been thickened for engaging with a bowstring. The remains of the tar would have glued the fletching to the shaft, while imprints of the thread securing the fletching is still visible.
The team found another arrow earlier this year in the Jotunheimen mountains which dates from around 1,700 years ago. This arrow was found complete with its iron arrowhead, sinew wrappings and aerodynamic feather fletching.
Other discoveries in melting ice patches by the project includes: the best preserved example of skis from prehistory, a Bronze Age shoe, and a lost Viking settlement that contained sleds, dead animals, clothing and household items.
You can follow the progress and updates from the project on their Facebook page.
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See! Think of all the neat stuff we’ll find before gorebal warming kills us all.
Alright, I can believe they found this arrow but I’m doubting the authenticity of that checkered ruler looking thing. That’s either been planted or photoshopped.
See! Think of all the neat stuff we’ll find before gorebal warming kills us all.
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Wait until Antartica melts and reveal entire lost cities.
They shot an arrow into the air ,LOL
It’s good to know I’m not the only one who loses stuff while hunting.
If the arrow is melting out of the ice then that must mean it was as warm or warmer than it is now. I wonder what climate scientist Lesko Brandon has to say about that. Or about glaciers melting and revealing tree stumps!
That’s a very professional looking nock on the arrow. Would love to see the entire steel arrowhead. Incredible find.
“Glacial Archeologists” as opposed to the non-specialized kind that digs in ordinary dirt and sand...
They just work slow..
You noticed that too, eh? Same thing worldwide, though at different ages. Aldean mountains, German village ruins coming visible from under the ice, Alpine finds. All previously built or buried under the present ice that is now melting. Again.
What`s the difference between an archaeologist and a glacier archaeologist?
Ahhh. So THAT’S where I dropped it!
Don't let it concern you. Aliens left a lot of them behind. I see pictures of those things in all of the articles about Egyptian and South American Archeological digs.
Wasn’t there an airplane, that sank down through the ice layers. Something about it would warm more than the surrounding ice.
Woolly Mammoths used to use that kind of spear to hunt man. That’s how man could exist for hundreds of millions of year but not overpopulate. Sometimes after slaughtering man, the mammoths would leave tools behind. Which of course make archeologists think that man was making tools, when in fact, it was the woolly mammoths.
It’s not easy to make a tool using only a mammoth trunk and large feet. They would often have to work together, especially when making knots.
Other times they would simply herd the humans north onto the ice sheets where they would freeze. Thus the origin of the word “pop”sicle.
After a couple of hundred million years, man realized that they could raid the mammoth camps and take their tools and spears and use them against the mammoths. This was the turning point in mammoth and human history.
It’s also how crows will take over from humans.
apparently it was much warmer on the planet when these people lived
The first one is neat. /rimshot
Danged white supremacist cisgendered homophobic racist time travelers!
The guy who lost it must have needed more range time though.
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